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...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ...............................

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...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDEN...

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..................................................................................................... 210 Note 8.?BATTLE BETWIXT THE ARMIES OF THE BRUCE AND MACDOUGAL OF LORN. ............. 212 Note 9.?MASSACRE OF GLENCOE. ................................................................................................................. 214 Note 10.?FIDELITY OF THE HIGHLANDERS....

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... FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ........................................

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What ... ...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of t... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...dit belongs to their Maker. They are entitled to no honors, no praises, no monuments when they die, no remembrance. One is a complex and elaborate mac... ...usion onclusion onclusion O.M. You have been taking a holiday? Y.M. Yes; a mountain tramp covering a week. Are you ready to talk? O.M. Quite ready. Wh... ... that it was so nourishing and so strength giv ing that the native of the mountains of the Madeira region would tramp up hill and down all day on a p... ...railway in the country. That state of things is all changed. There isn’t a mountain in Switzerland now that hasn’t a ladder railroad or two up its bac... ...en; take a rugged old Tom that’s scarred from stem to rudder post with the memorials of strenuous experience, and is so cultured, so educated, so limi... ...ries, such as Holiday Hill, Jackson’s Island, or Mark T wain Cave, are now monuments to his genius. Hannibal is glad of any opportunity to do him hono...

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...wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned from long experience never to apprehend mischief from those understandings I have been able to provoke...

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... the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that...

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...ater times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to wh...

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...tisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say--the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in ...

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Excerpt: Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey.

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...I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the P... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...r more caps in the form of a half oval, such are still to be seen upon the monuments of Egyptian and Persepolitan art, was fastened round the head by ... ...fected the passage, having been commanded by his uncle, Duke Bernard, this mountain previously known as the Mons Jovis, (and, by corruption, Mont le J... ...se, respectable nuisances— they are ancient, and of classical descent. The monuments still existing from pre-Christian ages, in memory of honest trave... ...a grave English professional man with his wife from being carried off to a mountainous captivity, and reserved from slaughter only by the prospect of ... ...ss of Dacian cap- 119 Thomas de Quincey tives sculptured on the triumphal monuments of Rome; and lastly, their peculiar name, Vlack W allachian, indi... ...share of classic interest.’ The character of the rocks prevailing in those mountain ridges which intersect the whole of Greece is, that whilst in its ...

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... of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yo...

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...o write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions...

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...ople can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a little to the strain?. The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts in the case....

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...possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law?s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson?s poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of the Bride of Lammermoor,...

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...e by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such si...

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.............................. 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS ..........................................................................................

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...is Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...g iron skerries, pitiless breakers, and great sea-lights; much of heathery mountains, wild clans, and hunted Covenanters. Breaths come to him in song ... ...eet; and in the morning the shadow of the prison turrets, and of many tall memorials, fall upon the graves. There, in the hot fits of youth, I came to... ...veyard alleys and to read, with strange extremes of pity and derision, the memorials of the dead. Books were the proper remedy: books of vivid human i... ...ny are strangely fled. They do not stand merely to the dead, these foolish monuments; they are pillars and legends set up to glorify the difficult but... ... landscape. Sail- ors and shepherds, and the people generally of coast and mountain, talk well of it; and it is often excitingly presented in literatu... ...e, Skelt would have been bolder; there had been certainly a castle on that mountain, and the hollow tree – that set piece – I seem to miss it in the f...

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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Penns... ...sylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...its bosom. The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the everflowing springs of fame;— “And thou ... ...issippi, the Ganges, and the Nile, those journey ing atoms from the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal... ... of the world. The heavens are not yet drained over their sources, but the Mountains of the Moon still send their annual tribute to the Pasha without ... ...ua, an old gray town where men grow old and sleep already under moss grown monuments,—outgrow their usefulness. This is ancient Billerica, (Villarica?... ... by it; but these did seem a little heathenish to us; and so are all large monuments over men’s bodies, from the pyramids down. A monument should at l... ...nd such as these, must be our antiquities, for lack of human vestiges. The monuments of heroes and the temples of the gods which may once have stood o...

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...ERS OF THE BODY .......................................................................................................................... 40 V. JOYS AND PASSIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 42 VI. THE PALE CRIMINAL....................................................

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...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...ny charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania S... ...lication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim M... ...its production was a renaissance in myself of the art of hearing. In a small mountain resort (Recoaro) near Vicenza, where I spent the spring of 1881,... ...ar, went into the province of Aria, and, during ten years of solitude in the mountains, composed the Zend-Avesta.” “The sun of knowledge stands once m... ..., and he found himself once more in the familiar and exhilarating air of the mountains, all his joyous creative powers revived, and in a note to me an... ...scord in thee? I would have thy victory and freedom long for a child. Living monuments shalt thou build to thy victory and emancipation. Beyond thysel... ...ejoicing where old Gods lie buried, world-blessing, world-loving, beside the monuments of old world-maligners:— —For even churches and Gods’-graves do... ...y become thankful. Not long will it be ere they devise festivals, and put up memorials to their old joys. They are convalescents!” Thus spake Zarathus...

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...in alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...nsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania ... ...lication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim ... ................308 Cavalry Crossing a Ford....................313 Bivouac on a Mountain Side..............313 An Army Corps on the March...........314 B... ...’ voyages, Joining eidolons. Densities, growth, facades, Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees, Far born, far dying, living long, t... ...now, my amaze, Having studied the mocking bird’s tones and the flight of the mountain hawk, And heard at dawn the unrivall’d one, the hermit thrush fr... ...is belov’d by these, and loves them in return and understands them, Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds, Where thrift... ...rs dear, Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you, Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you, The gist o... ...d temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments. Are those billions of men really gone? Are those women of the ...

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...tened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding offic...

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................. 183 THE SHAKER BRIDAL.................................................................................................... 202 ENDICOTT AND THE RED CROSS ................................................................................ 208...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I; Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav?nly Muse, that on the secret t...

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... . . . . . . . . 214 BOOK X. - i - BOOK I. Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death... ... Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, ... ...epherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth Rose out of CHAOS: Or if SION Hill 10 Delight thee more, and... ...rom the top of FESOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to descry new Lands, 290 Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pi... ... Songs, In SION also not unsung, where stood Her Temple on th’ offensive Mountain, built By that uxorious King, whose heart though large, Begu... ...Thir Glory witherd. As when Heavens Fire Hath scath’d the Forrest Oaks, or Mountain Pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stan... ... tell Of BABEL, and the works of MEMPHIAN Kings, Learn how thir greatest Monuments of Fame, 695 And Strength and Art are easily outdone By Spir... ...of Orders, and Degrees; Or in thir glittering Tissues bear imblaz’d Holy Memorials, acts of Zeale and Love Recorded eminent. Thus when in Orbes ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goe...

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...re, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived until within ten or eleven years of the outbreak of the Great French Revolution, and was a chief...

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............................................................................................................................ 43 LETTER XIV.?ON DESCARTES AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON........................................................................... 49 LETTER XV.?ON ATTRACTION.........................................................................................................

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...tion. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....

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Excerpt: Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey.

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......... 189 MODERN SUPERSTITION ........................................................................................................ 224 COLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATING ........................................................................................ 264 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT ..................................................................................................

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... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penns... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...of her whose very name had always sounded to my ears like the very echo of mountain innocence, purity, and pastoral simplicity. Here in another column... ...e could rest as upon a sofa. Previously we had stood upon graves, and with monuments more or less conspicuous all around us: some raised by friends to... ...t was all the fault of that ‘blue rejoicing sky,’ of those purple Biscayan mountains, of that tumultuous ocean, which she beheld daily from the nunner... ... The party had gathered wild berries and esculent roots at the foot of the mountains, and the horse was of very great use in carrying them. But this l... ...mpestuous mania, raving frenzy, or moping idiocy. T wo great commemorative monuments arose in after years to mark the depth and per- manence of the aw... ...de witnesses to their results, and associated with their relief; two great monuments, we say; first of all, one in the religious solemnity, enjoined b...

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........................................................................................................................... 23 THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER ...................................................................... 31 HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE ....................................................................................................

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...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 m...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common...

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...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State E... ...ic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publicatio... ...sylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ing dili- gence enough to form them into a regular com- position. Of these memorials a few have been 18 Boswell’s Life of Johnson preserved; but the ... ...I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland, and I pointed out to him a mountain which I observed resembled a cone, he corrected my inaccuracy, by ... ... Meditations, published by the Reverend Mr. Strahan, as well as from other memorials, two of which I select, as strongly marking the tenderness and se... ...ink that he had read Spenser.’ A proposition which had been agitated, that monuments to eminent persons should, for the time to come, be erected in St... ...ry great merit to the inventory of articles found in the pocket of the Man Mountain, particularly the description of his watch, which it was conjectur... ... Highlands of Scotland was the single exception to Milton’s remark of “The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty,” being worshipped in all hilly countries.’—’...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable commun...

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...LACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59 -- 7 THE GOVERNOR?S HALL, 66 -- 8 THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER, 72 -- 9 THE LEECH, 79 -- 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT, 87 -- 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART, 95 -- 12 THE MINISTER?S VIGIL, 100 -- 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER, 108 -- 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN, 114 -- 15 HESTER ...

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...E GOVERNOR’S HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 8 THE ELF CHILD AND THE MINISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 9 THE LEECH . . . . . .... ...CH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 11 THE INTERIOR ... ... 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 15 HESTER AND... ... no doubt, statistics of the former commerce of Salem might be discovered, and memorials of her princely merchants — old King Derby — old Billy Gray —... ... in his day, whose powdered head, however, was scarcely in the tomb before his mountain pile of wealth began to dwindle. The founders of the greater p... ...immesdale, by many of his traits of character, naturally belonged. To the high mountain peaks of faith and sanctity he would have climbed, had not the... ...no right to mingle. Yet one tomb stone served for both. All around, there were monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of sla...