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...vid Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication ... ... Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ... E MERSON THE M USKETAQUID, or Grass ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized hi... ...w is not reclaimed so fast as the woods are cleared. Let us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which... ...als.” Another, that “all the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stan... ... pardon him.”—The Gulistan of Sadi . Most people with whom I talk, men and women even of some originality and genius, have their scheme of the uni ve... ...t we may well doubt if there is any example of this in literature. The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I con fess to having been slightly...

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...arrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ... golden morning the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old, the timid and the bold, nay, even of the most delicate valetudinarians... ...agnificent, (a word too often and lightly abused.) In reality, speaking of women, I have seen many beautiful figures, but hardly one except Agnes that... ... styled truly and memorably magnificent. Though in the first order of tall women, yet, being full in person, and with a symmetry that was absolutely f... ...oble crea- ture, as I first looked at her, when yet upon the early thresh- old of womanhood ‘With household motions light and free, And steps of virgi... .... But the capital argument against such doctrine is to be found in the New Testament. Strange that Milton should overlook, and strange that moralists ...

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...Introduction: 1. The Occasion of the Work. -- Luther did not impose himself as reformer upon the Church. In the course of a conscientious performance of the duties of his office, to which he had been regularly and divinely called, and without...

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... h e e e e e e r r r r r r A Treatise on Go od Works by Mart in Luther A Treatise on Good Works Together with the Letter of Dedication ... ...e on Go od Works by Mart in Luther A Treatise on Good Works Together with the Letter of Dedication by Dr. Martin Luther, 1520 , translated by M. Reu ... ...tion by Dr. Martin Luther, 1520 , translated by M. Reu is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished... ...an or any pur y pur y pur y pur y purpose pose pose pose pose, , , , , and in an and in an and in an and in an and in any w y w y w y w y wa a a a ay ... ...former and the latter by an important fundamen tal discussion of the New Testament conception of Sabbath rest. Luther discusses the Fourth Commandme... ...e work is done in faith and by faith. This perversion is indicated in the Old T estament, when the Jews left the T emple and sacrificed at other pla... ...adorned with God’s Name and power, dangerous to touch. But the prophets of old were masters in this; also the Martin Luther s Treatise on Good Works ... ...re is of good preachers and prelates; how only knaves, children, fools and women rule. Then you will see that there were need every hour without ceas ... ...n Good Works 69 XXI. From this we can judge how wisely or foolishly some women act when they are with child, and how the sick are to be treated. For...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Bars...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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....................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FOR ETERNITY ................................ 90 JUDAS ISCARIOT.............................................................................................................. 103 ON HUME?S AR...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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...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...

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...Introduction: In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art r...

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...Excerpt: Inferno: Canto I. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews ...

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... Wadsworth Longfellow A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a... ...y of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Lon... ...ined I till we reached the river. And lo! towards us coming in a boat An old man, hoary with the hair of eld, Crying: “Woe unto you, ye souls depr... ...ent, Which the crowds had, that many were and great, Of infants and of women and of men. To me the Master good: “Thou dost not ask What spirits ... ...sen The three infernal Furies stained with blood, Who had the limbs of women and their mien, And with the greenest hydras were begirt; Small ser... ...d he thereafterward, “whose name is Crete, Under whose king the world of old was chaste. There is a mountain there, that once was glad With waters... ... wind, And think not every water washes you. Ye have the Old and the New Testament, And the Pastor of the Church who guideth you Let this suffic...

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...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 ...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and un...

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...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exce...

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...entures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1... ...HE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. . . . . . . 2 THE JOURNAL. ... ...ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish’d,... ...others by this Example, and to justify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Circumstances, let them happen how they will. The... ... his Consent than force me to go without it; that I was now Eighteen Years old, which was too late to go Apprentice to a Trade, or Clerk to an Attorne... ...ing Weather ’tis now. To make short this sad part of my Story, we went the old way of all Sailors, the Punch was made, and I was made drunk with it, a... ...in the second Place, we found the People terribly frighted, especially the Women. The Man that had the Lance or Dart did not fly from them, but the res... ...lled. They call’d immediately to some of their Friends, and there came two Women and brought a great Vessel made of Earth, and burnt as I suppose in t... ...ickness. July 4. In the Morning I took the Bible, and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it, and impos’d upon my self to read a...