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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents BOOK I 3 CHAPTER I — PRELIMINARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 C... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ... — PROSPECTIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 BOOK II 55 CHAPTER I — GENESIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 CHAPTER II... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...ger, cook, errand maid, and general lion’s provider, and for the rest a very orderly crea ture, had no sovereign authority in this last citadel of Te... ...s not his Soul lie enclosed in this remarkable V olume, much more truly than Pedro Garcia’s did in the buried Bag of Doubloons? To the soul of Diogene... ...ureen or trough, and the hungry Public invited to help itself. To bring what order we can out of this Chaos shall be part of our endeavor. 24 SARTOR ... ...bed by ever active Influences, which doubtless to Intelligences of a superior order are neither invisible nor illegible. “For such superior Intelligenc...

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... Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... last year of his life, tell of his sorrow at the loss of his child- wife: I was a child and she was a child, In a kingdom by the sea; But we loved w... ... a kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Covete... ...stotles of our newspapers, we have quite too many geniuses of the loftiest order to render a place among them at all desirable, whether for its hardne... ...ends—old college and West Point acquain- tances -and see what I can do. In order to get the means of taking the first step, I propose to lecture at th... ...the varnish of caoutchouc; a large and deep basket of wicker-work, made to order; and several other articles necessary in the construction and equip- ... ...ent delirium, perhaps, had caused me to take deep interest; so that I bade Pedro to close the heavy shutters of the room — since it was already night ...