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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. ... ...lism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasu... ...udges had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the old, who held captured history in their memories. Boorstin relates aweso... ...er, and let them dry into woven mats of paper. After he ground up hemp, old cloth, and mulberry bark, mixed them with water, and pounded them with... ...ampion of the liberal arts and sciences, even though he may have been too old to advance personally very far in such studies. Became the Holy Roman... ...ing places for scholars, artists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced learning. ...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...the mountain. He survived. On another Everest expedition, David Sharp, an Englishman, on his way down did not have oxygen. Many climbers passed him.... ...God all things are lawful.‘‖ --―Those ideas are based on the age-old idea that God is the only source of morality. But if we look back 4000... ...m and you believe that it starts at birth we both hold only opinions. The old Jewish concept was that life started when the child 49 was born. T... ...d whether females even had souls. If a male fetus younger than four weeks old is aborted, was it a human life? ―Certainly from most religiou... .... This makes it difficult to discern what the original writers or verbal translators actually meant. Did the idea of the soul being the ―image of Go... ...look for the word ‗soul‘ in all the Bible translations, the various Bible translators vary considerably in their translation of it. One Bible uses t...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. ... ...lism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasu... ...udges had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the old, who held captured history in their memories. Boorstin relates awesome... ...ter, and let them dry into woven mats of paper. After he ground up hemp, old cloth, and mulberry bark, mixed them with water, and pounded them with... ...ampion of the liberal arts and sciences, even though he may have been too old to advance personally very far in such studies. Became the Holy Roman... ...ing places for scholars, artists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced learning. ...

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... consisting in the concomitance of the opposites, which gives it a real specificity. The paradox is of the nature of an explosive nucleus resulting from the fusion of satisfaction and anxiety. The first situation, during an instant, is derived from the appearance of something with a convincing meaning; the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of someth...

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...2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, and L. Popescu American Res... ...rch Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) ... ... I received at the redaction office of “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and... ...f the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old construction of philosophy and an object of study for logic, the parad... ...d of literature!! During the last years, paradoxism has generalized the old expression of “literature” in the multidimensional spaces or on a scie... ...at means that it has not matured sufficiently. anyway, a youth without an old age is possible only in the paradox, that suspends history. In fact, C... ...t with the dot under the i) at the trilinguist volume (Romanian, French, English) The Silence Bell, Florin Vasiliu notes that the author “has asser... ... of the character with the actor who plays it, the notes for the eventual translators, funny puns (deformed figurative syntagms, logogriphs, argotis... ...ranslations of poems of genre in Italian, Esperanto, Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Arabian. The linguistic diversity gives an idea on the pa...

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of the future against the backdrop of political power struggle. ...

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...pen. Startled, he watched with curious astonishment as a purple mist emanated from the Tabernacle on the altar where the Holy Eucharist was kept. A ... ...st – a presence with form and face. An indescribable harmonic rhythm pulsated from an 4 J.Cross/Artemis iridescent, glowing white and purple tr... ...uest, Holy Father?” “Ah, yes. Thank you, Alfredo.” The Pope pulled a notepad from his drawer, tore off a page and handed it to Alfredo. “Do you kno... ... a true religious leader, that is, except, to Berini who yearned for the good-old days of the Infallible Papacy. Pope Francis paced in a circle s... ...u don’t have a Sicilian accent.” “I do when I need it.” “Do you also speak English?” “Very well, Holy Father,” Antonio replied in perfect Englis... ...ather, you speak beautiful Italian.” “For an American?” the Pope quipped in English. 12 J.Cross/Artemis “Forgive me, Holy Father, I meant no... ...say something like that to me?" he spit out the words. "Senator, there's an old saying, ‘The truth will set you free’." "You give me religious cl... ...n they were playfully wrestling on the sofa, when... “Is that anyway for an old married couple to act,” Alicia said pretending to sound stern as s... ...ble. On the other, three Chinese officials and their top military General. Two translators 248 J.Cross/Artemis were also present. The meeting wa...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ... the United States. Only 23% of Spaniards had a positive opinion of the USA, down from 41% the year before. A similar drop was evinced in India (f... ...41% the year before. A similar drop was evinced in India (from 71% to 56%), Russia (from 52% o 43%), Indonesia (from 38% to 30%), and Turkey (from ... ...ed, forcibly sodomized ("indecent acts with a child") and then murdered an 11-years old girl in the basement of her drab building in Kosovo, when he... ...he world. The Marshall Plan was a ploy to make Europe dependent on US largesse. The Old Continent, sneers the paper, is nothing more than "US little... ...ct sooner or later. The "War on Terrorism" is only the latest round in a millennium-old war between Islam and other "world systems". Such interpre... ...with Turkey is, plausibly, anti-Arab. Turkish security officials confirmed to the English- language daily, Turkish Daily News, in March last year, ... ...he Pentagon and training in Hungary. Some of them are slated to serve as guides and translators for the coalition forces in their homeland. The prog... ...ench. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-own...

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...reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presen... ..., and how a received law should not easily be changed XXIII. Divers events from one selfsame counsell XXIV. Of Pedantisme XXV. Of the Institution and ... ... collecting; and this was to Montaigne like Bacchus, closed in, or loosed from his great Iupiters thigh) I the indulgent father invited two right Hon... ...ing foster-father, having transported it from France to England; put it in English clothes; taught it to talke our tongue (though many-times with a j... ...e your other servants: it may not onely serve you two, to repeate in true English what you reade in fine French, but many thousands more, to tell th... ... have some privilege of preheminence. So have they: they onely are worthy Translators. Why but the vulgar should not knowe at all. No, they can not ... ...it to be Marjoram. Why, but it is not wel Divinite should be a childes or old wives, a coblers, or clothiers tale or table- talke. There is use, and ... ...ii. 362. As windes in emptie ayre diffus'd, strength lose, Unlesse thick-old-growne woods their strength oppose. So seemes it that the soule moved a... ...otten this entreaty or request, or that promise, he is not mindful of his old friends, he never remembered to say, or doe, or conceale this or that,...

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...h Press Rehoboth 2002 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Books on Demand ProQ... ..., USA E-mail: M_L_Perez@yahoo.com More books online can be downloaded from: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBook-otherformats.htm ... ...any written in Hungarian or Romanian). We have corrected and updated these English versions. Some papers appeared already in the Smarandache Notions J... ...to express my warmest gratitude to a number of persons and organiza- tions from whom I received valuable advice or support in the preparation of this ... ...1. of our paper. 52 12 An arithmetic problem in geometry 1. The following old problem in its complete generality was studied in 1891 by Gy. V alyi (... ...ation is clearly false (e.g. 4j6 2 but 4 2 = 16- 6 2 , etc.). The Romanian translators of this book have observed this mistake and have pro- posed ano... ...Ingeniozitate si surprize ^ n matematic a , Ed. Enc. Rom^ an a, 1975; English edition: Mathematical Quickies, New York, 1968. 4. B. Margit, Probl... ...orems, have several interesting applications and lead to a new approach of old problems. In what follows it will be convenient to use the well-known J... ...d. 229 2 On a non-divisibility property Letn> 1 be a positive integer. An old problem states that 2 n 1 cannot be divisible byn. We will prove that...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................5 TRANSLATORS? PREFACE.......................................................................23 THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.............................26 APPENDIX:.......................................................

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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ransla... ...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated by William Morris and Eirik... ............................................................................5 TRANSLATORS’ PREFACE.......................................................... .................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA ......................................................... ...ard Wagner’s operatic Ring Cycle is in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Origina... ... is in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Originally written in Icelandic (Old No... ...r speech have been by the influx of foreign blood; but Iceland held to the old tongue that was once the universal speech of northern folk, and held al... ...ve become all but forgotten in this century. — DBK. 23 The V olsunga Saga TRANSLATORS’ PREFACE In offering to the reader this translation of the most... ...ngst the prose text by the original story- teller, and some by the present translators, and the remainder in the latter part of the book, put together...

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...Excerpt: Prefatory Note: The execution of this version of the Iliad has been entrusted to the three Translators in the following three parts: Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Translators, and the rendering of passages or phrases recurring in more than ...

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...The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers,... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e. On a few doubtful points, though very rarely, the opinion of two of the translators has had to be adopted to the sup pression of that held by the ... ...n restricted to passages where there is external evidence, such as absence from the best MSS., for believing in interpolation. One or two departures f... ...AgamemnonandAchillesfelloutatthesiegeof Troy; andAchilles withdrew himself from battle, and won from Zeus a pledge that his wrong should be avenged on... ...ll winged fowls; and so the counsel of Zeus wrought out its accomplishment from the day when first strife parted Atreides king of men and noble Achill... ...t him away, and laid stern charge upon him, saying: “Let me not find thee, old man, amid the hollow ships, whether tarrying now or returning again her... ...ht. And her will I not set free; 7 The Iliad of Homer nay, ere that shall old age come on her in our house, in Argos, far from her native land, where... ...voke me not, that thou mayest the rather go in peace.” So said he, and the old man was afraid and obeyed his word, and fared silently along the shore ...

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...e. The first is what has gone wrong with our world and the second what can be done to put it right. God will put it right by delivering Human-beings from themselves. He began the process with a promise in Genesis chapter 3, and the Old-Testament shows how he cannot break a promise ...

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...Our Bible is a remarkable book. It is more than just a clever view of history it was written down by forty authors of all walks of life from king to labourers and all between It was written over a span of one-thousand-five-hundred-years in three languages, There is no way these writers could collaborate with one another and yet it has one unified theme and me...

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...Contents Translators Preface............................................................................................................................ 4 PROLOGUE .........................................................................

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...olume I: The First T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents Translators Preface........................................................... ... 4 Balzac Droll Stories Vol. 1 by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume I: The First T en T ales Translators Pre... ...ries Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume I: The First T en T ales Translators Preface When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famou... ...ouraine, unas- sisted by map or guide. Not only is this book a work of art from its historical information and topographical accuracy; its claims to t... ...s mentioned. Now this work is the production of the joyous leisure of good old monks, of whom there are many vestiges scattered about the country, at ... ...in storehouses of good stories, which storehouses are the upper stories of old canons and wise dames, who remember the good old days when they could e... ...h make the people to reap public amusement from the Republic. But of those old pantagruelists who allowed God and the king to conduct their own affair...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ...of bloodshed suf- fered or inflicted. Judas and Simon Maccabæus in days of old, Gustavus Adolphus* in modern days, fighting for the *The Thirty Years’... ...te present, he will be apt to adopt the ordinary view, namely, that in the Old T estament severity prevails approaching to cruelty. Y et, on considera... ...at the power of reflecting and comparing, we look for something nobler. We English estimate Waterloo, not by its amount of killed and wounded, but as ... ...nch su- periority—that is the object of French wars. Like the Spar- tan of old, the Frenchman would hold that a state of peace, and not a state of war... ...bility of an effectual searching by very unlearned persons. Our authorized translators of the Bible in the Shakspearian age were not in any exquisite ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... .......................................................................... 72 From the Mountain. ........................................................... ......................................................................... 256 FROM ‘THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER.’ ......................................... ......................................................................... 258 FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604. ....................................................... ......................................................................... 290 OLD AGE. ..................................................................... ... from which Schiller too was not absent; recalling to the mind the days of old, when a Virgil and a Horace and a Maecenas sat side by side. Rememberin... ...ss; while no single per- son has as yet appeared to attempt to give, in an English dress, in any collective or systematic manner, those smaller produc... ...h, and also a very strict adherence to the metre of the original. Although translators usually allow themselves great license in both these points, it... ...t to glimmer so. Sooner thus will good unfold; Children young and children old Gladly hear thy numbers flow. 1820.* * In the cases in which the date i...

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...ss complete MSS., preserved in thirty-one fragments, fifteen of which date from the thirteenth and four- teenth centuries. Of all these MSS., but nine... ... age, curious as to the literature of its ancestors, should bring it forth from its hiding places. However, the figures of the old legend were not for... ... should bring it forth from its hiding places. However, the figures of the old legend were not forgotten, but lived on among the people, and were fi- ... ... formed merely the basis or source for some poet who thought to revive the old heroic legends of the German past which were familiar to his hearers an... ... epics of Heinrich von V eldeke and Hartman von Ouwe, but his poem is free from the tedious and often exaggerated descriptions of pomp, dress, and cou... ... of Sigurd and Gunnar (the Norse forms of Siegfried and Gunther), which an old man Nornagest relates to King Olaf Tryggvason, who converted the Norweg... ... called “Dancwart der snelle”, a word that has proved a stumbling-block to translators, be- cause in modern German it means ‘speedy’, ‘swift’. Its ori... ...arkness.” This translates the M.H.G. “tarnkappe,” a word often retained by translators. It is formed from O.H.G. tarni, ‘secret’ (cf. O.E. “dyrne”), a... ...th the style, “fall” has been chosen as preferable to ‘need,’ used by some translators. The MS. C has here “liet” instead of “not” of A and B. (3) The...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...the spelling of the manuscripts would only have served to divert attention from Shelley’s poetry to my own ingenuity in disgusting the reader accordin... ...rlooked misprint for ‘uprist’—not by any means a nonce-word, but a genuine English verbal substantive of regu- lar formation, familiar to many from it... ... love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. ‘The good die first, And those whose hearts are ... ...tep, Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old: Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the... ...iced chamber. He did place His pale lean hand upon the rugged trunk Of the old pine. Upon an ivied stone Reclined his languid head, his limbs did rest... ...e mighty intellects of our own country that succeeded the Reformation, the translators of the Bible, Shakespeare, Spenser, the Dramatists of the reign...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...t know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forge... ...ter of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old no- tions and em... ...mancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old no- tions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily un... ...voc among the revenues of sinecurists, and stripping the thin, tawdry veil from attrac- tive superstitions, are working as actively in literature as i... ...d in the same way, is more pardonable, than to believe in the good-natured old king whom the elegant pen of Florian has idealized—Numa Pompilius. Scep... .... 299, sq. Section 6. I may observe that this Life has been paraphrased in English by my learned young friend Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, and appended to... ...ustified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poetry. Encouraged by this ... ..., such as “platoon, campaign, junto,” or the like, (into which some of his translators have fallen) can- not be allowable; those only excepted without...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... words a more universal criticism of life than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “Give me back, give me back, the wild f... ...ut it; I do not think that we could de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and i... ... will be inclined to pardon many faults for the plea- sure he will receive from a tender sensation: and for readers of a different stamp, the more fau... ...ice which at least requires strength of body, are chosen out of those poor old decrepit people who are, from their want of bodily strength, rendered i... ...well-armed villains. Quae non viribus istis Munera conveniunt. If the poor old fellows should run away from such enemies, no one I think can wonder, u... ...oting, or riotting (for I have seen it spelt both ways), many thousands of old women have been arrested and put to expense, sometimes in prison, for a... ...t of the Greek.” T o con- fess the truth, I believe,” said he, “the French translators have generally consulted the Latin only; which, in some of the ... ... the few Greek writers I have read, is intolerably bad. And as the English translators, for the most part, pursue the French, we may easily guess what...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ook. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy old version, with all its defects, has a charm that no modern translation, ... ...at to hope for even a moder- ate popularity for Shelton was vain. His fine old crusted English would, no doubt, be relished by a minority, but it woul... ...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...have little doubt that it 5 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more... ...ippant, jocose style of his predecessors. He was one of the few, very few, translators that have shown any apprehension of the unsmiling gravity which... ...cceptable even to the careless reader as the one who treats it as a famous old jest-book. It is not a question of caviare to the general, or, if it is... ...hat of Motteux’s version for example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes adopt. It is the grave matter-of-factness of the narr...

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...ook. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy old version, with all its defects, has a charm that no modern translation, ... ...at to hope for even a moder- ate popularity for Shelton was vain. His fine old crusted English would, no doubt, be relished by a minority, but it woul... ...tly combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has enti... ...carefully with the original will have little doubt that it is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowi... ... Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more... ...ippant, jocose style of his predecessors. He was one of the few, very few, translators that have shown any apprehension of the unsmiling gravity which... ...cceptable even to the careless reader as the one who treats it as a famous old jest-book. It is not a question of caviare to the general, or, if it is... ...hat of Motteux’s version for example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes adopt. It is the grave matter-of-factness of the narr... ... and less profitable to himself. This estimate does not include two famous translators, Doctor Cristobal de Figueroa, in his Pastor Fido, and Don Juan...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...empt as difficult as it was useless. The besetting sin of both Montaigne’s translators seems to have been a propensity for reducing his language and p... ... the quotations, which were in a most corrupt state, and of which Cotton’s English versions were singularly loose and inexact, and for the zeal with w... ...him of the crows’ and sparrows’ nests built in the walls and arches of the old churches, destroyed by the Huguenots. Again, he was appre- hensive, see... ... have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and arches of the old houses, upon which, as on slabs of rock, they raise their modern palace... ... 1591 in making fresh additions to his book; and even in the approaches of old age he might fairly anticipate many happy hours, when he was attacked b...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ination methinks I shall have rendered some service to Your Excellency, as from many parts I am urged to send him off, so as to dispel the loathing an... ...more favour than I can wish for.” Thus I gave him his leave and I beg mine from you, offering Your Excellency the “Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda,”... ...and and I your feet, being as I am, Your Excellency’s most humble servant. From Madrid, this last day of October of the year one thousand six hundred ... ...nd of it. What I cannot help taking amiss is that he charges me with being old and one-handed, as if it had been in my power to keep time from passing... ...r once showed himself in public; but after that he came out again with his old trick and a heavier load than ever. He came up to where there was a dog... ...site that of the furious one was listening; and raising himself up from an old mat on which he lay stark naked, he asked in a loud voice who it was th... ... and less profitable to himself. This estimate does not include two famous translators, Doctor Cristobal de Figueroa, in his Pastor Fido, and Don Juan...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...pious. Piety consists in obedience. CHAPTER XIV ? Definitions of Faith, the True Faith, and the Foundations of Faith, which is once for all separated from Philosophy. Danger resulting from the vulgar idea of faith. The only test of faith obedience and good works. As different men are disposed to obedience by different opinions, universal faith can contain only the simplest...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... True Faith, and the Foundations of Faith, which is once for all separated from Philosophy. Danger resulting from the vulgar idea of faith. The only t... ...f we examine the style of the Epistles, we shall find it totally different from that employed by the prophets. (3) The prophets are continually assert... ...he prophets, but also in their epistles containing revelations, as appears from the epistle 5 Spinoza of Elijah to Jehoram, 2 Chron. xxi:12, which be... ...r places, as the prophets did, by the command of God. (26) W e read in the Old Testament that Jonah went to Nineveh to preach, and at the same time th... ... observe the differ- ence between the mission of an Apostle and that of an Old Testament prophet. (32) The latter were not called to preach and prophe... ...ve rein to their lusts are at no loss for an excuse, nor were those men of old who possessed the original Scriptures, the ark of the covenant, nay, th... ...ICO-POLITICAL TREA TISE CHAPTER XI. Endnote 24. (1) “Now I think.” (2) The translators render the Greek word “I infer”, and assert that Paul uses it a... ... is very doubtful, for we know neither the time of its appearance, nor the translators and Syriac was the vernacular of the Apostles) renders the text...

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...nignity that could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianit... ...d Other Papers – V olume One tous, Christianity is advancing for ever; but from our imper- fect vision, or from our imperfect opportunities for applyi... ...o prevent that, we will suppose the question to be proposed by an emissary from some re- mote planet,—who, knowing as yet absolutely nothing of us and... ...could have been opened between the new world of Christian feeling, and the old world so deaf to its music. Here, therefore, we may observe two prepara... ..., but every dinner party was a sacrifice. This was strictly so in the good old ferocious times of paganism, as may be seen in the Iliad: it was not sa... ...heir pathos upon ideas that but for Christianity could never have existed. Translators there have been, English, French, German, of Mahometan books, w... ...ery far’ from every one of us. And I will venture to say, that many a poor old woman has, by virtue of her Christian inoculation, Sir Isaac’s great id... ... its nature. Next, we want another inspiration (No. 2) for the count- less translators of the Bible. Of what use is it to a German, to a Swiss, or to ... ...dopt the inspiration No. 2, that will not avail us; because many different translators exist. Does the very earliest translation of the Law and the Pr...

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...shire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should b... ...an interest in provincial dialect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from th... ...RBOURNE TERBOURNE THE SOUTH D OWNS of England descend at about eight miles from the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an... ...ent (or V enta Belgarum, as the Romans called Winchester) and Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum). It can still be traced at Hursley, and fragments of another lea... ... been found built into the stone-work of the tower. And on the wall of the old Otterbourne Church a very rude fresco came partially to light. T raced ... ...ng and bishop were reconciled; and the lat- ter spent a pious and penitent old age, only taking one meal a day, and spending the surplus in charity. H... ...ve not sticked to say ‘that David hath been as much persecuted by bungling translators as by Saul himself.’ Some have made libellous verses in abuse o... ...libellous verses in abuse of them, and no wonder if songs were made on the translators of the Psalms, seeing drunkards made them on David the author t... ...usly enough proceeding from the same parish) remind us of these simple old translators. The Old Hundredth, and in some degree the 23rd and the open- i...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ................................................................... 159 ON AN OLD GATE. .................................................................... ...and, Pope’s ardent friends erred in classing him with or above these great old writers; and on the other, his enemies were thus provoked to thrust him... ...atue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exaggerated the “De- cline an... ...ilton has winged his daring flight from heaven to earth, through Chaos and old Night; Pope’s Muse never wan- dered in safety, but from his library to ... ...e latter of which ours has met with the better fate, as he has had for his translators persons of the most eminent rank and abilities in their respect... ...ed.—P . 306 ‘Bezaleel:’ Bezaleel Morris was author of some satires on the translators of Homer, with many other things printed in newspapers. ‘Bond w...

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... 63 THE LOVE OF BOOKS THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD DE BURY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY E. C. THOMAS is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ny way. THE LOVE OF BOOKS THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD DE BURY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY E. C. THOMAS , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, F... ...m PREFACE THE A UTHOR OF THE B OOK. Richard de Bury (1281 1345), so called from being born near Bury St. Edmunds, was the son of Sir Richard Aungerv... ... the bishop’s bookloving propensities, supplementary to what can be gathered from the Philobiblon itself. Iste summe delectabatur in multitudine libr... ...le to stand or move without treading upon them. All the time he could spare from business was devoted either to religious offices or to his books. E... ...books, from which the scribe who is instructed bringeth forth things new and old? T ruth that triumphs over all things, which overcomes the king, wine... ...f Tarquin the Proud in despising books, as also related by Aulus Gellius. An old woman, ut terly unknown, is said to have come to Tarquin the Proud, ... ... pay for three books the same price for which he might have bought nine. The old woman straightway disappeared, and was never seen before or after. T... ... day, while new au thors’ names are imposed upon us by worthless compilers, translators, and transformers, and losing our ancient nobil ity, while w...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...................................................................... 92 The Old and the New Music ........................................................ ... section in which I show how the revolutionary history of West- ern Europe from the Liberal explosion of 1848 to the con- fused attempt at a socialist... ...military, and municipal adminis- tration in Paris in 1871 (that is to say, from the beginning of The Niblung’s Ring by Wagner to the long-delayed comp... ...lated a new chapter which will perhaps induce some readers of the original English text to read the book again in German. For some time to come, indee... ...s against it must be a rascal. Even the Social-Democrats in Germany differ from the rest only in carrying academic orthodoxy beyond human endur- ance—... ... that I knew Engels personally and rather liked him as a witty and amiable old 1848 veteran who despised modern Socialism; that I regard Bebel and Sin... ...nonsense with the absurdest distorsions of his ideas into the ideas of the translators. We now have a translation which is a masterpiece of interpreta... ...Ring music is perfectly single and simple. It is the adept musician of the old school who has everything to unlearn: and him I leave, unpitied, to his...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... OF THE SOVEREIGN POWER. Hitherto our care has been to separate philosophy from theol- ogy, and to show the freedom of thought which such separa- tion... ...n enemy anyone who hinders the accom- plishment of his purpose. It follows from what we have said that the right and ordi- 5 Spinoza nance of nature,... ...h he judges to be good, except with the hope of gaining a greater good, or from the fear of a greater evil; nor does anyone endure an evil except for ... ...s august control. It is therefore necessary, as the prophets discovered of old, if one king be removed, that he should be replaced by an- other, who w... ...d them or changed the monar- chical form of government into any other. The English people furnish us with a terrible example of this fact. They sought... ...unicate it from the Church, as Ambrosius treated the Emperor Theodosius in old time. However, I will show later on in this chapter that they take this... ...vision, contentions, and strife will necessarily spring up, as they did of old between the Jewish kings and high priests, and will defy all attempts t... ...t to death. See 2 Sam. xix:22, 23. [Endnote 31]. See Numbers xxvii:21. The translators of the Bible have rendered incorrectly verses 19 and 23 of this...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...angely contradict one another that it seems impossible they should proceed from one and the same person. We find the younger Marius one while a son of... .... Gell., xvii. 14.] There seems some reason in forming a judgment of a man from the most usual methods of his life; but, considering the natural insta... ...the whole course of his life, that he has slipped away clear and undecided from the most daring critics. I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy t... ...arratur et prisci Catonis Saepe mero caluisse virtus.” [“ And of old Cato it is said, that his courage was often warmed with wine.”—Horace, ... ...ay home from Italy. But let us return to our bottles. The incommodities of old age, that stand in need of some refreshment and support, might with rea... ...for that reason my last draught is always the greatest. And seeing that in old age we have our palate furred with phlegms or depraved by some other il... ...Atque in eo est Venus, ut muliebria conserat arva.” [None of the translators of the old editions used for this etext have been willing to tr... ...riliter Iners senile penis extulit caput.” [(The 19th or 20th century translators leave this phrase untranslated and with no explanation. D.W.)—T...