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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ... 1612 Intensity and Purity Pg 1616 The evil of the Undead Pg 1619 Robber Barons and the Cuckoo Bird Pg 1623 Reptilian Undead Pg 1639 The Evi... ...nly for their benefit. So they began killing each other. They became Robber Barons… Kings of their respective territories, in which they only kill... ...tive territories, in which they only killed, and used, and traveled through… Barons of their huge landed estates… becoming incensed and outraged tha... ...gatherer.’ What caused WW1? The 1 st World War did not start because an Austrian archduke was assassinated by some nameless anarchist who was ... ...nated by some nameless anarchist who was fighting to free his Serbia from the Austrian Empire’s benevolent rule. That was only the excuse. All the... ...ing was friendly with was with his Royal equals the Russian Royal Family, the Austrian Royal Family, The Greek Royal Family, the German Royal family,...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ...pod.com/internet.html http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Table of Contents I. Battling Unemployment II. The Labour Divide - I. Emp... ... is unemployed in Spain. It is about 28% in France and in Italy. Germany, Austria and Denmark escaped this fate only by instituting compulsory appre... ...gram or sentenced to correctional labour are excluded (unlike in Germany, Austria or Denmark). It follows that the unemployed are people seeking emp... ...mployed in Spain - and about one quarter in France and in Italy. Germany, Austria and Denmark escaped this fate only by instituting compulsory appre... ... a Marketing Plan become criminal? But, with the exception of the robber barons of the 19th century, no industry ever came close to the deliberate,...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... 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 ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ... captives -- The eight enchanters -- A wonderful stratagem -- Execution of two Barons -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The... ...her independence in 1797 and she became a shuttlecock for the battle- doors of Austria and Italy. BELIEF RESPECTING THE EARTH'S SHAPE. But though sail... ...accepted; for these latter, says Polo, were first placed under the care of his barons' wives, who determined, if they had sweet breaths or snored in t... ...been seen, extending to the wall on the north and south, and opening where the barons and soldiers pass. It hath no ceiling, but a very high roof; th... ... incessant, but this King was now near the end of his days and both France and Austria were eager to conciliate the Spanish people; the former, that t... ...for a grandson of Louis XIV; the latter, that Leopold I might place thereon an Austrian prince. The dying King had, it is said, made a will in favor o...

...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 -- ...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...om: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value ... ...T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value of Stocks of a Company III. The Process of Due Diligence IV. Financial Investor, Strategic Investor V. ... ...h cases all but impossible. There is no telling what were the contributions of drug barons, American off-shore corporations, or European and Japanes... ...e doing better or worse than their parents — is weaker in America than in Denmark, Austria, Norway, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Spain and Fra...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...oe, Israel. Russia's population is hungry and abrasively materialistic. Its robber barons are more American in spirit than any British or French en... ... firms. Russia and France are not alone in their reluctance to bin Iraqi credits. Austrian Minister of Finance, Karl-Heinz Grasser, was unambiguou... ... through mutual customs agreements ... including France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Austria, Poland, and perhaps Italy, Sweden, and Norway". It is ...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ..., Jews again benefited mightily. Three quarters of the famous "oligarchs" (robber barons) that absconded with the bulk of the defunct empire's ass... ...entury by 29 countries, including Germany, The United States, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden ... ...ion of the EU but to a new war between, let's say Russia and Germany, or Italy and Austria, or Britain and France? Ridiculous? Revisit your history... ... when does a Marketing Plan become criminal? But, with the exception of the robber barons of the 19th century, no industry ever came close to the d... ...ding Change" - "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom." The much quoted Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase "creativ... ...tims – of the decisions of corrupt politicians, mad scientists, megalomaniac media barons, gung-ho generals and demented artists. This world is not...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ..., Jews again benefited mightily. Three quarters of the famous "oligarchs" (robber barons) that absconded with the bulk of the defunct empire's ass... ...entury by 29 countries, including Germany, The United States, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden ... ...ion of the EU but to a new war between, let's say Russia and Germany, or Italy and Austria, or Britain and France? Ridiculous? Revisit your history... ... when does a Marketing Plan become criminal? But, with the exception of the robber barons of the 19th century, no industry ever came close to the d... ...ding Change" - "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom." The much quoted Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase "creativ... ...tims – of the decisions of corrupt politicians, mad scientists, megalomaniac media barons, gung-ho generals and demented artists. This world is not...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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The Dove in the Eagles Nest

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...een the cultivation in the free cities and the savagery of the independent barons made the former the more suitable region for the adventures. The tim... ...es in course of being reduced from their lawless liberty, and the House of Austria beginning to acquire its preponderance over the other princely fami... ...ious, undig- nified old man, not until near his death Archduke of even all Austria, and with anarchy prevailing everywhere under his nominal rule. It ... ...itern of Schlangenwald, and Adlerstein, and all the rest of the mouse-trap barons. He is hoping to form a league of us free imperial cities with all t... ...herr, one might as well leap over the abyss at once.” “Yes, those old free barons are pitiless tyrants,” said Gottfried, “and I scarce think I can und... ...la- tion and the general progress around them became greater. The House of Austria, by gradually absorbing hereditary states into its own possessions,...

...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...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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 ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ... to keep his oath and resign the Crown. Harold would do no such thing. The barons of France leagued together round Duke William for the invasion of En... ... to be useless when he found the Prince supported by a company of powerful barons, who declared they were determined to make him King. The treasurer, ... ...d the Pope’s niece. Having no more chil dren, however, he proposed to the Barons to swear that they would recognise as his succes sor, his daughter ... ...people in Germany who had served in the Holy Land under that proud Duke of Austria who had been kicked; and some of them, easily recognising a man so ... ...her own, for they started A Child’s Histroy of England 324 up from Spain, Austria, Sweden, and England. Her English lover at this time, and one whom ... ...ccasion Buckingham—with his usual audacity—made love to the young Queen of Austria, and was very indignant indeed with Cardinal Richelieu , the Frenc...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

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The Talisman

By: Sir Walter Scott

...sics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...with all the other Christian princes—with Philip of France, with that dull Austrian, with him of Montserrat, with the Hospitallers, with the T emplars... ...ith the T urks for the Holy Sepulchre.” “They might choose the Archduke of Austria,” said De Vaux. “What! because he is big and burly like thyself, Th... ...thy indifference to dan- ger and carelessness of offence? I tell thee that Austria has in all that mass of flesh no bolder animation than is afforded ... ...y upon them when they en- countered on the march and in camp. The Scottish barons and knights were not men to bear his scorn unobserved or unreplied t... ... to be in effect restrained and curbed by the will of as many proud feudal barons as hold land under the Assizes of Jerusalem. [The Assises de Jerusal... ...red from the Saracens. “It was com- posed with advice of the patriarch and barons, the clergy and laity, and is,” says the historian Gibbon, “a precio...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...like story is told of Rodolf of Hapsburgh, the founder of the greatness of Austria, and one of the most open-hearted of men. A flagon of water was bro... ...ismal conflict between Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria, which was called the Seven Years’ War. Louis XV . of France had ta... ...as called the Seven Years’ War. Louis XV . of France had taken the part of Austria, and had sent an army into Germany in the autumn of 1760. From this... ...nd seemed, however, sternly made up; and all that Sir Walter Mauny and the barons of the council could obtain from him was that he would pardon the ga... ...ess of mind, to have pity on us.’ Strong emotion was excited among all the barons and knights who stood round, as they saw the resigned counte- nances... ...ompanions perished with him, of whom a third are said to have been counts, barons and knights. ‘Then lost was banner, spear and shield At Sempach in ...

...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...

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Rewards and Fairies

By: Rudyard Kipling

...eries Publication Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... compared to me, and see what he’s done already . He’s conquered Egypt and Austria and Italy—oh! half Europe!” he says, “and now he sails back to Pari... ...he hurt beasts as Red William would have done. Most vilely his knights and barons shot! De Aquila kept me beside him, and I saw no more of Hugh till e... ...utgoing De Aquila bade me follow him, with his great bishops and two great barons, to the little pa- vilion. We had devised jugglers and dances for th... ...xeter; but that he would have said to any word of the King. ‘The two great barons behind said nothing. This teaching was clean against their stomachs,...

......................... 71 THE KNIFE AND THE NAKED CHALK .................................................................................. 72 The Run of the Downs ................................................................................................................................................ 72 The Knife and the Naked Chalk .....................................

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Marmion a Tale of Flodden Field

By: Sir Walter Scott

...Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ... Record that Fox a Briton died! When Europe crouched to France’s yoke, And Austria bent, and Prussia broke, And the firm Russian’s purpose brave Was b... ...6 Marmion XIII. Then Whitby’s nuns exulting told, How to their house three barons bold Must menial service do; While horns blow out a note of shame... ...f that glorious time, When, with unrivalled light sublime - Though martial Austria, and though all The might of Russia, and the Gaul, Though banded Eu...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ic and head of the house of the Medici was his mar- riage with Margaret of Austria, natural daughter of Charles V . Francesco dé Medici, husband of Bi... ...d in this said place, the Duke of Albany, and many others, whether counts, barons, or seigneurs; nearest to the king was the Seigneur de Montmorency, ... ..., the counts of Champagne, the counts of Blois, those of Anjou, the simple barons of Normandie, the dukes of Bretagne, lived with the splendor of sove... ... and the Cardinal de Lorraine are now preparing. The heads of twenty-seven barons, eleven counts, and seven marquises,—in all, fifty noblemen or leade... ... been paying court to the two queens, Catherine dé Medici and Elizabeth of Austria, and to their son and husband King Charles IX. In those days the ma... ...nages in the kingdom were in the royal apartments. The queen, Elizabeth of Austria, and her mother-in-law, Catherine dé Medici, were seated together o...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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The Nibelungenlied

By: Daniel B. Shumway

...Publication The Nibelungenlied, trans. Daniel B. Shumway is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... the Rhine, until it was taken and worked up into its present form by some Austrian poet. Who this poet was we do not know, but we do know that he was... ...elungen” stro- phe is presumably much older, and, having become popular in Austria through the poem, was adopted by Kurenberg for his purposes. As to ... ...ivalry and of the “Minnesingers”. More exactly, the poem is written in the Austrian dialect of the close of the twelfth century, but contains many arc... ...t bounty. With worshipful honors the company departed hence. Of the mighty barons the tale doth tell that they desired the youth unto their lord, but ...

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ultiplied were the means of vexation and oppression possessed by the great Barons, that they never wanted the pretext, and seldom the will, to harass ... ...as absent a prisoner, and in the power of the perfidious and cruel Duke of Austria. Even the very place of his captivity was uncertain, and his fate b... ...ion’ s mortal enemy, was using every species of influence with the Duke of Austria, to prolong the captivity of his brother Rich- ard, to whom he stoo... ...ance, it usually happened that there were among the persons assembled some barons, who, for their own interested mo- tives, were ready to act as their... ...nsisted of the favourite leaders of his mercenary troops, some maraud- ing barons and profligate attendants upon the court, with several Knights T emp... ...ant he should slay him!—No—a prison were better; and whether in Britain or Austria, what matters it?—Things will be but as they were when we commenced...

...Excerpt: In that pleasant district 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. ...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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 ... ...s a pleasant idea of John coming all in a happy excitement to see what the barons have been arrang ing for him at Runnymede, while the other one give... ... 108 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION Note.—The assassination of the Empress of Austria at Geneva, Septem ber 10, 1898, occurred during Mark Twain’ s Aust... ...he mourning is universal and genuine, the consternation is stupefying. The Austrian Empire is being draped with black. Vienna will be a spectacle to s... ...Empress is murdered!” When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew Wha... ...l bring a witness.” The court thus created consisted of fifteen counts and barons. A day was appointed for the trial of the case. On that day the judg...

............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. Yonge is ... ... Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...le the regency for the child, Louis XIV ., devolved on his mother, Anne of Austria—a pi- ous and well-meaning, but proud and ignorant, Spanish Prin- c... ...ting up among her lace and cambric pillows and coverlets was Queen Anne of Austria, in a rich white lace cap and bedgown that set off her smooth, fair... ...r,’ I said fervently; and I knelt to kiss the beautiful hand which Anne of Austria ex- tended to me in token of pardon. ‘It is understood, then,’ said... ...better even if we were in En- gland. Then she began giving me instances of barons’ daugh- ters marrying gentlemen learned in the law; and I listened w...

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Droll Stories Volume II : The Second Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...nd T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ublication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...ian to a German knight, who by this deed would have secured the domains of Austria to the House of Hapsburgh. The author of our days, who brought this... ...mitten with her, and that from love, or perhaps in great fear of the young barons, lovers of this woman, he had planned her escape. The good man Corni...

...Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consen...

...Contents THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS ................................................................................. 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................ 19 THE MERRY TATTLE OF T...

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Unknown to History : A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Elec... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication... ...f the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...for the home of us Talbots, and the sailor in the fens is this Don John of Austria, who means, after conquering the Dutchmen, to come and set free thi... ...ch slight matter as burning down the T albots’ ken- nel, while Don John of Austria is landing on the coast.” “God forgive them, and defend us!” sighed... ...me, might show what was to be expected if Mary of Scotland and Don John of Austria were to reign over England, armed with the Inquisition. Antony aske... ...e seats were long benches against the wall, for the Earls on one side, the Barons on the other. The Lord Chancellor Bromley, in his red and white gown... ...here they sit in front of the Earls, and three more judges in front of the Barons.” “And there are more red robes at that little table in front, besid...

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...THE BEWITCHED WHISTLE ...................................................................................................... 57 CHAPTER VII THE BLAST OF THE WHISTLE................................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER VIII THE KEY OF THE CIPHER ..............................................................................

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A Legend of Montrose

By: Sir Walter Scott

...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...ffect of restraining the mountain chief- tains; while the power of various barons in the north, who had espoused the Covenant, as, for example, the Ea... ... the bulwark of the Protestant faith, the Lion of the North, the terror of Austria, Gustavus the Victorious.” “And yet, if I understand you, Captain D... ...n Dalgetty, “that are al- ways promised, and always go for nothing! Spain, Austria, and Sweden, all sing one song. Oh! long life to the Hoganmogans! i...

...Excerpt: I. Introduction to a legend of Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attendi...

...Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................................................................. 16 III. A LEGEND OF MO...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ceiling of lavender-bordered milky tiles, while the lords of the city, the barons of insurance and law and fertilizers and motor tires, laid down the ... ... considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen- mill viscounts. The details of precedence were never off... ...ral resources, and agricul- ture of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, and Bulgaria. He told them all about t...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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Vailima Letters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... 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... ...Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document Fi... ...ord of any language left to use, and I saw in him (to my wonder) the strongest workings of gratified ambition. Napoleon was no more pleased to sign hi... ... that knows and likes the natives, qui paye de sa personne, and is not afraid of hanging when necessary. We don’t want bland Swedish humbugs, and fuss... ...e, Lloyd and I, and drove in great style, with a native out- rider, to the prison; a huge gift of ava and tobacco under the seats. The prison is now u... ...don’t know that he would show his best, but he is a re- markably fine fellow, in every department of life. We have other visitors in port. A Count Fes...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...grees of propinquity between the house of W averley-Honour and the doughty barons, knights, and squires, to whom they stood allied; if (notwithstandin... ... of which arose a massive, but ruinous tower, the former habitation of the Barons of Bradwardine, The margin of the 52 Waverley brook, opposite to th... ... Bradwardine were, in his opin- ion, like those of the house of Bourbon or Austria, placed high above the clouds of passion which might obfuscate the ... ...the abolition of the heritable jurisdic- tions of the Lowland nobility and barons,—the total eradica- tion of the Jacobite party, which, averse to int...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...chambers, to appear at the court of the monarch, by the side of the feudal barons in their ermine and their mail. Whilst the kings were ruin- ing them... ...ave the law; and, in our own time, in the Germanic Confederation, in which Austria and Prussia assume a great degree of influence over the whole count... ...at it is much more difficult to subdue a people which has a prince and his barons for its leaders, than a nation which is commanded by a prince and hi...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. 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... ...al effects of the Refor- mation. — Revolt of Matthias. — The Emperor cedes Austria and Hungary to him. — Matthias acknowledged King of Bohemia. — The ... ...pts the Crown of Bohemia. — Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Transylvania, invades Austria. — The Duke of Bavaria and the Princes of the League embrace the ca... ...War Book V. Battle of Nordlingen. — France enters into an Alliance against Austria. — Treaty of Prague. — Saxony joins the Emperor. — Battle of Wistoc... ...Emperor to submis- sion; where 80 Papists were to be found, 300 Protestant barons might be counted. The ex- ample of Rodolph should be a warning to Ma... ...llets were already falling upon the imperial palace, when sixteen Austrian barons forcibly entered his chamber, and inveighing against him with loud a... ...ondi- tions. The Archduke is still engaged in altercation with the deputed barons, when all at once a 85 Friedrich Schiller sound of trumpets is hear...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...

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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...te M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...it. He had been a great church-builder, and so were his Norman bishops and barons. You always know their work, because it has round pillars, and round... ...one what they wished. It was very wrong of him; for he, like all the other barons, had sworn that Maude should reign. But the people knew he was a kin... ...reatly preferred him to her. So he was crowned; and at once all the Norman barons, whom King Henry had kept down, began to think they could have their... ...one city on the coast named Acre; and one of the princes, Leopold, Duke of Austria, set up his banner on the walls. Richard did not think it ought to ... .... There was no way for him to get home but through the lands of Leopold of Austria; so he pretended to be a merchant, and set out attended only by a b... ...ons, and guessed that the boy’s master must be some great man. The Duke of Austria heard of it, sent soldiers to take him, and shut him up as a prison...

Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

...Contents Young Folks? History of England ..................................... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418........

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Miscellaneous Prose

By: George Meredith

...eries Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ing to the intimation sent by General Lamarmora on T uesday evening to the Austrian headquarters, the three days fixed by the general’s message before... ...ver, and, as everybody here hopes, to cross it in spite of any defence the Austrians may make. On my way to this ancient city last evening I met Gener... ...curo, or at any other point not far from it, it is to be supposed that the Austrians will make a stand there, and I should not be surprised at all tha... ...the Po and of the Mincio may boast of two Colonnas, a prince of Somma, two Barons Renzi, an Acquaviva, of the Duke of Atri, two Capece, two Princes Bu...

...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quot...

...EN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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The Prince

By: Nicolo Machiavelli

... The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...he kingdom as ministers by his favour and permis- sion; or by a prince and barons, who hold that dignity by antiquity of blood and not by the grace of... ...ntiquity of blood and not by the grace of the prince. 25 Machiavelli Such barons have states and their own subjects, who rec- ognize them as lords an... ...for the defence of Ferrara; and to keep down the Pope they made use of the barons of Rome, who, being divided into two factions, Orsini and Colonnesi,... ...berto of San Severino; died fighting for Venice against Sigismund, Duke of Austria, in 1487. “Primo capitano in Italia.”— Machiavelli. Count of Pitigl...

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

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Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

By: Paul Hentzner

...Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Nau... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert ... ...l Hentzner, and Fragmenta Rega- lia by Sir Robert Naunton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is fur... ...to go to prayers, attended in the following manner:— First went gentlemen, barons, earls, Knights of the Garter, all richly dressed and bareheaded; ne... ...bles: the first is called the Fellows’ table, to which are admitted earls, barons, gentlemen, doctors, and Masters of Arts, but very few of the latter... ...he had, and one of the maids of honour to the divorced Queen, Katharine of Austria (or, as the now styled, Infanta of Spain), and from thence taken to... ..., with one observation more, that he was one of the greatest always of the Austrian embracements, for both himself and Stafford that preceded him migh...

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

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...k, do our registering ourselves? St. Louis had his Plenary Court, of Great Barons; (Montgaillard, i. 405.) most useful to him: our Great Barons are st... ...lances, shalt thrill rough bosoms, whole steel battalions, and persuade an Austrian Kaiser,—pike and helm lie provided for thee in due season; and, al... ...much better were it than armed Emigrants, Turin-intrigues, and the help of Austria! Nay, are the two hopes inconsistent? Rides in the suburbs, we have... ...mmand, might lie Counter-Revolution itself, sale to Exiled Princes and the Austrian Kaiser: treacherous Aristocrats hoodwinking the small insight of u...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... and the dialogue is quite as fine and correct as that in the “Last of the Barons,” or in “Eugene Aram,” or other works of our author, in which Sen- t... ...ress Josephine, at Malmaison (whom we loved a thousand times more than her Austrian successor, a sandy-haired woman, between ourselves, with an odious... ...—an excellent, gentle creature, quite unlike her husband—stood up with the Austrian ambassador. Besides, the famous artists Baron Gros, David and Nich... ...he crowd, in which stood Ney, Murat, Lannes, the Prince of Wagram, and the Austrian ambassador, we showed to the beau monde of the French capital, I f... ...eleton of the proud and majestic pal- 43 Burlesques ace stronghold of the Barons of Barbazure. In the days of our tale its turrets and pinnacles rose... ...g Richard. It was Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, I need scarcely say, who got the Barons of England to league to- gether and extort from the king that famous...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...on of the Danube is of very little use to the different states of Bavaria, Austria, and Hungary, in comparison of what it would be, if any of them pos... ...discipline, he gave them all the means of security and independency of the barons which it was in his power to bestow. Without the establishment of so... ...o some other farmer. The princes who lived upon the worst terms with their barons, seem accordingly to have been the most liberal in grants of this ki... ...to his towns. {See Madox.} Philip I. of France lost all authority over his barons. T o- wards the end of his reign, his son Lewis, known afterwards by... ...h the medium of other countries, goods to it of their own produce, such as Austrian Flanders, and some provinces of Germany, which, through the medium... ...ere those which, in later times, the Swiss militia gained over that of the Austrians and Burgundians. The military force of the German and Scythian na...

Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... In that memorable struggle for su- periority between the rival houses of Austria and Bourbon, which so long kept Europe in a flame, it is well known... ...osition to authority of the sovereign, and frequent wars between the great barons or chief feudatories themselves. The power of the head of the nation... ... the purpose of a more regular authority. But in general, the power of the barons triumphed over that of the prince; and 76 The Federalist Papers in ... ...s chiefly owing to the tyranny of those vassals over their dependents. The barons, or nobles, equally the enemies of the sovereign and the oppres- sor... ... by Grotius, that nothing but the hatred of his countrymen to the house of Austria kept them from being ruined by the vices of their constitution. The...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the feudal mon archies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and England, with Austria or ante revolutionary France. Their superior pros perity was too o... ... Constitution, and the Commons only a checking body; but this was when the barons were almost the only power out of doors. I can not believe that, in ... ...be enabled to use some of them as tools for the enslavement of others. The Austrian court has now for a whole generation made these tactics its princi... ..., the Bund would make all Germany a dependency of Prussia if there were no Austria, and of Austria if there were no Prussia; and, in the mean time, ea...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...ce liker seem’d To glass than water. Not so thick a veil In winter e’er hath Austrian Danube spread O’er his still course, nor Tanais far remote The D... ...e been by the loveliness of her person, and calling to him Guido, one of his barons, gave her to him in marriage, at the same time raising him to the ... ...Emperor obtained the kingdom for his eldest son Rodolph. See Coxe’s House of Austria, 4to. ed. v. i. part 1. p. 87 v. 117. He.] Philip IV of France... ... Winceslaus, prince of Bohemia, son of Winceslaus II. See Coxe’s House of Austria, vol. i. p. 1. p. 86. 4to edit. v. 140. Navarre.] Navarre was no...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ... Bohemia, after they had plundered and sacked Suevia, Wittemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Moravia, 116 Gargantua & Pantagruel and Styria. Then they set fie... ...times they called to their assis- tance the emperors, kings, dukes, earls, barons, and com- monwealths of the world that live on t’other side the wate...

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

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