Full Text Search Details
...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Personal Record by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... was not hinged and it was not full to the brim of slab- sided and painted animals of wood. Even the live tourist ani- mal was nowhere in evidence. We... ... Turkey. Its first campaign, against Russia itself, was to be its last. In 1831, on the out- break of the Revolution, Mr. Nicholas B. was the senior c... ...ine on the pavements of Paris.” After his return to Poland Mr. Nicholas B. described him as a “worthy man but stupid,” whenever he could be induced to... ...ke the plunge into my writing life, if as plunge this first attempt may be described. My whole being was steeped deep in the indolence of a sailor awa... ... of him in a place called Pulo Laut from a half-caste gentleman there, who described himself as the manager of a coal-mine; which sounded civilized an...

Full Text Search Details
...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ur- key. Its first campaign, against Russia itself, was to be its last. In 1831, on the outbreak of the Revolu- tion, Mr. Nicholas B. was the senior c... ...ine on the pavements of Paris.” After his return to Poland Mr. Nicholas B. described him as a “worthy man but stupid,” whenever he could be induced to... ...ke the plunge into my writing life, if as plunge this first attempt may be described. My whole being was steeped deep in the indolence of a sailor awa... ... of him in a place called Pulo Laut from a half-caste gentleman there, who described himself as the manager of a coal-mine; which sounded civilised an... ...re away a fit of apo- plexy. We went out hastily and separated the gallant animals. Afterwards I told the lady where she would find my wife—just round...

Excerpt Details
...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

Full Text Search Details
...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. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...y years the du Guaisnics have received their friends in the two rooms just described, in which, as in the court-yard and the external accessories of t... ...gave the two fine hunting-dogs their daily meal. The joyful barking of the animals was the last noise that awakened the echoes slumbering among the da... ...ured to its full extent the evils which the in- novative spirit of the age—described to her as so dangerous for young souls by the rector—would have u... ...table; he saw nothing about him. The beautiful woman in the fanciful dress described that morning by Felicite appeared to him crowned with light; she ... ...devoted to hippic questions; but, for all that, he knew very little of the animals, and from shoes to bridles he depended wholly on his groom,—all of ... ...d enter into one great solemn com- petition, it would be fine; but you buy animals as the manag- ers of theatres trade in artists; you degrade an inst...

Excerpt Details
...re to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

Full Text Search Details
...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 Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Pr... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...erved, some- times the type of the dwellings of the middle ages, like that described in “Fame and Sorrow” (Scenes from Private Life), one or two speci... ...g a suitable porter, and then of obtaining tenants occupied Thuillier from 1831 to 1832. When the phenomenon of the change was accomplished, and the s... ...he Phellions had long had their eye, cost them eighteen thousand francs in 1831. The house was separated from the courtyard by a balustrade with a bas... ...we have seen already. The pair then walked up and down, precisely like two animals in a cage, while mutu- ally playing the following scene:— “Have you... ...presses that turbulent, nagging, irritating activity which La Fontaine has described so well in his fable of “The Old Woman and her Servants.” Brigitt...

Full Text Search Details
...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 Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...n several places the imprint of shoes, which they carefully mea- sured and described, and which were afterwards found to correspond with the soles of ... ...cessary for the prompt liquida- tion of the assets. Graslin died in April, 1831, and the widow’s grief yielded only to Christian resignation. Veroniqu... ... its proper valuation. The day of her departure, toward the end of August, 1831, Madame Graslin’s numerous friends accompanied her some distance out o... ...he Correze. This chain of hills joined the bar- ren slopes we have already described, parallel with the chain of the Roche-Vive. On returning from thi... ... soil which the annual fall of leaves, the manure left by the pasturage of animals, and, above all, the melting of the snows contained in the valley o... ...in’s own carriage, a gift from Grossetete, was drawn by four of the finest animals, plainly harnessed. After dinner the happy party went to take coffe...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

Full Text Search Details
...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...h crevices left by lost teeth; while the rest of the family and the few farm animals were huddled together in an empty wood Life on the Mississippi ... ... now set forth in detail the nature of the science of piloting, and likewise described the rank which the pilot held among the fraternity of steamboat... ...y I resolved to seek my man. In conversa tion I studiously and persistently described the robbers as tramps, camp followers; and among this class the... ... towels, public combs, and public soap. Take the steamboat which I have just described, and you have her in her highest and finest, and most pleasing,... ...s them away. The birds get up from the water, and fly to a distant land. The animals hide themselves from my breath, and the very ground becomes as ha... ...d been gathered in a large flat boat, where, without food, as we passed, the animals were huddled together, waiting for a boat to tow them off. On the...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her ti...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...32 3. Catharine b. 1827 d. 1832 4. Oliver b. 1829 d. 1832 5. Clara b. 1831 2. Elizabeth, m. Jocelyn, 3rd Earl f Ormersfield b. 1772 b. 1760 ... ... her nephew’ s arm for love, and not for need, as he discoursed of all the animals that might be naturalized in England, obtained from Mary an account... ..., and how little he could com- pare with such a fine gentleman as had been described, ‘ And she always had a taste for gentility.’ ‘Well, Tom, I would... ...- ing before him a green branch, as an emblem of his peaceful mission. She described how, at the sight of his violet robes, and the white cross on his...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Almae Sorori. In the year 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame. The first man who was so bold as to build on this strand, the...

Full Text Search Details
...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 Exiles by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James War... ...oing 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. C... ...nctively becoming physiological, he remarked on the resemblance to certain animals stamped on some human faces, accounting for them by primordial anal... ...gs of Nature, and assigned a mission and a future to minerals, plants, and animals. Bible in hand, after thus spiritualizing Matter and materializing ... ...e heavens, while the outer man was tortured by the executioner’s sword. He described angels dwelling among men, and gave tokens by which to recog- niz... ...velations of our destiny. He displayed the whole universe at a glance, and described the nature of God Himself circulating in a full tide from the cen... ...throne. Mad fools that we are! We will not admit that the most intelligent animals are able to understand our ideas and the object of our actions; we ... ... a voice of thunder. “Death to 32 The Exiles the Guelphs!” Paris, October 1831. To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www.hn.psu....

Full Text Search Details
...phy of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper Originally published in Graham’ s Magazine (Jan.-Apr. 1843) A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S... ...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. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper... ...for the fulfilment of his or its destiny. Plants have sensation as well as animals. The latter, how- ever, have no consciousness anterior to their phy... ...enced were different from those I have since had frequent occasion to hear described. The circumstances which called them forth were as follows: The m... ...were striking the hour of five, on the morning of the fourteenth of April, 1831. The last was drawn that day two months, precisely as the same clocks ...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

Full Text Search Details
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...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... ...formed his opinion on slavery. It run its iron in him then and there, May, 1831. I have heard him say so often.” Then he lived several years at New Sa... ...spect of the tortured wood turtle to com- pose an essay against cruelty to animals in general, so the aspect of other cases of suffering and wrong wro... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One to which he had devoted his life, well described the proc- lamation as a “great historic event, sublime in its mag... ... judgment bearing date “1828” and in other respects differing from the one described; and that he is asserting that no such assignment as the one copi...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the sam...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... they’ve espied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall. Arbotsford, 1st March 1831. KENIL WORTH CHAPTER I. I am an innkeeper, and know my grounds, And st... ...t appeared in the public room, on the morning following the revel which we described in the last chapter. “Is he well, and will he abide by his wager?... ...n an avenue overshadowed by such old 35 Sir Walter Scott trees as we have described, and which had been bordered at one time by high hedges of yew an... ...st.” “By this light, Anthony, thou art mad,” answered Lambourne, “and hast described rather the gentleman-usher to a puritan’s wife, than the follower... ...e traced in grotesque lines representations of the heavenly bodies, and of animals and other terrestrial objects, gave them the lively ap- pearance of...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson, the... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...Scots (about eighty pounds sterling) at a time when five hundred pounds is described as ‘an opu- lent future.’ I do not know if I should be glad or so... ... cause of piety escaped that danger.** On the whole, the Stevensons may be described as de- cent, reputable folk, following honest trades – millers, m... ...s. ‘A tall, stout man coming ashore with his gun over his arm’ – so he was described to 15 Records of a Family of Engineers my father – the only desc... ...ood, and the fragile furniture of light-rooms. It was often impossible. In 1831 I find my grandfather ‘hovering for a week’ about the Pentland Sker- r... ... molest them, it had become a very favourite residence of these amphibious animals, the writer having occasionally counted from fifty to sixty playing... ...ey seemed to look with that sort of curiosity which is observable in these animals when following a boat. [Saturday, 22nd Aug.] Hitherto the artificer...

Excerpt Details
...on of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a ma...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsy... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...look for at their father’s death; and yet when that happened in September, 1831, the heir was still apathetically waiting. Poor John, the days of his ... ...iful sprays of coral, twisted and twined with shells of those small, fairy animals we saw in the aquarium at home; poor little things, they died at on... ...he tale; but then there was no spark of malice, it was mere weakness I had described, and he had never denied nor thought to set a limit to man’s weak... ... sailor’s cheerfulness and ancient courtesy, as he lay dying, is not to be described. There he lay, singing his old sea songs; watching the poultry fr... ... Committee on Electrical Standards, is due to experimental work by Jenkin, described in a paper, ‘Experiments on Capacity,’ constitut- ing No. IV. of ...

Excerpt Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocquevi... ...ocial and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described as “We, the people,” in the opening sentence of the Constitution.... ... rapid stream, we obstinately fix our eyes on the ruins which may still be described upon the shore we have left, whilst the current sweeps us along, ... ... envy nor fear. What influence could they possess over such men as we have described? The Indian could live without wants, suffer without complaint, a... ... the European is to the other races of man- kind, what man is to the lower animals; – he makes them subservient to his use; and when he cannot subdue,... ...nk was the water of the brook, and their clothes consisted of the skins of animals, whose flesh furnished them with food. The Europeans introduced amo... ...ve where immense herds of buffalo are yet to be found and who follow those animals in *In the thirteen original States there are only 6,273 Indians re...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...may be partly because his personal appearance was not prepossessing. He is described by a contemporary as “a little man with legs too short for his bo... ...ropose to portray them in subsequent volumes. Probably much of what I have described is improbable and does not happen as things customarily happen in... ...nowledge of life to be acquainted with the sort of characters which I have described herein would annotate in detail the book, without missing a singl... ...a, the place of a Swiss footman is frequently taken by watchdogs; of which animals a number now pro- claimed the travellers’ presence so loudly that C... ...Nozdrev showed his guests some empty stalls where a number of equally fine animals (so he alleged) had lately stood. Also there was on view the goat w... ...recting their tails—their “stems,” as dog fanciers call those members— the animals came bounding to greet the party, and fully a score of them laid th...

Full Text Search Details
...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 Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...lected by me at the Keel- ing Islands; and the Reverend J. M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plants. I shall have the pleasure of acknowledging... ...f every crevice. This soon withers; and upon such naturally formed hay the animals live. It had not now rained for an entire year. When the is- 7 Cha... ... age of the streams. During our stay, I observed the habits of some marine animals. A large Aplysia is very common. This sea-slug is about five inches... ...sh. Although common in the pools of water left by the retiring tide, these animals were not easily caught. By means of their long arms and suckers, th... ...n feathers; a beetle (Quedius) and *Mr. Horner and Sir David Brewster have described (Philo- sophical Transactions, 1836, p. 65) a singular “artificia... ...and that the directions of the bands indicate that of the currents; in the described case, however, the line was caused by the wind. The only other ap...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

Table of Contents Details
...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...ting a nearer look, we perceived upon the creature’s back a vast number of animals about the size and shape of men, and altogether much resembling the... ...ere contrivances designed, by their great weight, to keep the heads of the animals steady and safe upon their shoulders. Around the necks of the creat... ... nothing but thunder. As the smoke cleared away, we saw one of the odd man-animals standing near the head of the large beast with a trumpet in his han... ...he full moon, from that circular rift amid the clouds which I have already described, streamed in a flood of golden glory along the black walls, and f... ...ieces of house furniture, broken boxes, barrels and staves. I have already described the unnatural curiosity which had taken the place of my original ... ...on of M. V aldemar’s condition. It remained in all respects as I have last described it, with the exception that the mirror no longer afforded evidenc...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

Table of Contents Details
...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...ismissal from the United States service. In this he succeeded. On March 7, 1831, Poe found himself free. Mr. Allan’s sec- ond marriage had thrown the ... ... trayed the fiction. Let us imagine the power actually possessed of seeing animals upon the moon’s surface — what would first arrest the attention of ... ..., and about this, as a centre, a rude circle, about four feet in diameter, described. Taking now a 89 V olume One spade himself, and giving one to Ju... ...ew position a circle, somewhat larger than in the former instance, was now described, and we again set to work with the spades. I was dreadfully weary... ...n offence to the notions of propriety entertained, in general, by the wild animals do- mesticated in the city. A mutiny has been the result; and, as i... ...said, that I am detailing any mystery, or penning any romance. What I have described in the Frenchman, was merely the result of an ex- cited, or perha...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three.

Table of Contents Details
........................198 KING PEST .................................................................................................221 THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK...............................................................232...

Full Text Search Details
...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State ... ...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... ...time as when they were first put in. In one particular these extraordinary animals bear a resemblance to the dromedary, or camel of the desert. In a b... ...rew should be numerous and efficient—not less, for such a vessel as I have described, than fifty or sixty able-bodied men. The Jane Guy had a crew of ... ... assemblage of such encampments a rookery. These rookeries have been often described, but as my readers may not all have seen these descriptions, and ... ...few wild goats; the island now abounds with all our most valuable domestic animals, which have been intro- duced by subsequent navigators. I believe i... ...f January—and we should not be surprised if a portion of the icy mountains described was attached to the main body of Palmer’s Land, or to some other ... ...he race of the Arctic bear, but far exceeding in size the largest of these animals. Being well armed, we made no scruple of attacking it at once. Seve...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if ...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pen... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...by Moliere in Eliante’s famous couplets; but if he sometimes heard himself described as a “charming man” (after he had done some fair lady a service),... ...esolution are battered in breach. The tyranny of the palate has never been described; as a necessity of life it escapes the criticism of lit- erature;... ...ent with Pons. The sight of a family party on these occasions is not to be described. Everybody was well satisfied to see a mother put her hand on an ... ... mansion, divided his office and his lodge with three remarkably ferocious animals—an English bull-dog, a New- foundland dog, and another of the Pyren... ...den by hanging a piece of meat just out of reach on the top of a pole. The animals guarded the house, and sheer hunger guarded the dogs. No odor that ... ...self when he awoke. The advantages of this fiendish scheme are patent. The animals never barked, Magus’ ingenuity had made savages of them; they were ...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...opious notes, a close and faithful translation. The first one cannot be so described, that of Johann Fischart, a native of Mainz or Strasburg, who die... ...an endorsement of lead, carrying the antique figures of little puppets and animals of all sorts, notably well suited to one another, and gilt, togethe... ...rs; which makes me verily think that the supremest height of heroic virtue described by Hesiod consisteth in being a debtor, wherein I held the first ... ..., after its production of plants, trees, shrubs, herbs, sponges, and plant-animals, to eternize and continue them unto all succession of ages (in thei... ...accommo- dated as he ought without the servitude and subjection of several animals, bethought himself that of necessity he must needs put on arms, and... ...ircumstances and conditions being thereto adhibited, as are clearly enough described by Hippocrates, in Lib. (Greek), by Plato, Plotin, Iamblicus, Sin...

Excerpt Details
...pt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus criticus of the several editions, especially that of Rzach (1902). The arran...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evel... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, a... ...saved by Rhea, grows up and overcomes Cronos in some struggle which is not described. Cronos is forced to vomit up the children he had swallowed, and ... ...ses various prerogatives, a share in divination, the lordship of herds and animals, and the office of messen- ger from the gods to Hades. The Hymn is ... ... Leipzig, 1823 (with scholia: in Poett. Graec. Minn II). Goettling, Gotha, 1831 (3rd edition. Leipzig, 1878). Didot Edition, Paris, 1840. Schomann, 18... ... trast to ‘leavened’. (17) About the middle of November. (18) Spring is so described because the buds have not yet cast their iron-grey husks. (19) In... ... again she bare a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced 74 Hesiod, The H... ... less ones...’ etc. is an interpolation), because not only trees, men, and animals, but even the hills and seas (ll. 129, 131) are supported by it. (5...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ay and white dwellings of the inhabitants. According to the valu ation of 1831, there were in Concord two thousand one hundred and eleven acres, or a... ...th unsold, Honored this spot of earth; Who sought the prize his heart described, And did not ask release, Whose free born valor was not brib... ... five feet in diameter, mingled with fine charcoal, and the bones of small animals which had been preserved in the sand. The surround ing sand was sp... ...fied for Henry the 214 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers fur trader, as described in the latter’s “Adventures,” so al most bare and leafless, yet ... ... and mosquitoes! A day passed in the society of those Greek sages, such as described in the Banquet of Xenophon, would not be com parable with the dr...

Description Details
...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

Excerpt Details
...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

Table of Contents Details
...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 sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

Full Text Search Details
... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...s, dolphins, and seals.  Our lack of body hair—again similar to aquatic animals.  Greasy waterproofing skin.  Very tiny webbing between the fi... ...h disproportionately big brains without having lived primarily on aquatic animals and plants from shallow fresh and coastal waters. Dr. Crawford... ...llows the air that powers our sound system to pass through. Most other animals’ voice boxes sit upright behind the tongue and into the back of the... ...ionize computing. In a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article ―As We May Think,‖ he described a theoretical machine he called a ―memex.‖ He targeted its mi... ...tute of Anne, 1709–1710.  1830 High Speed Steam Press Patent, stifled by 1831 Copyright Act.  1900 High Speed Electric Presses, stifled by1909 US ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five.

Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................. 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ...................................................................... 61 BON-BON........................................................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...ed in convincing myself that I was neither mad nor in a dream. Y et when I described the monster (which I distinctly saw, and calmly surveyed through ... ...ourang-outangs was very simple, but effective enough for his purposes. The animals in question had, at the epoch of my story, very rarely been seen in... ...al term. After the discovery of the embalming principle, as I have already described it to you, it occurred to our philosophers that a laudable curios... ...ty, magnificence, and superiority of the Fountain at the Bowling Green, as described by the Doctor. Nothing like it, he was forced to allow, had ever ... ...s said Politian was a melancholy man? POEMS OF YOUTH INTRODUCTION TO POEMS—1831 LETTER TO MR. B—. “WEST POINT, 1831. “DEAR B . . . . . . . . . Believi... ...amp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy-land! 1831. 216 EA Poe THE V ALLEY OF UNREST Once it smiled a silent dell Where ...

Excerpt Details
... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

Full Text Search Details
...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. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...l in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man’s face.” “Has ... ...use that gets its own living is more interesting. I like to think that the animals about us have souls something like our own, and either carry on the... ...Freshitt and Tipton had pronounced her clever, that epithet would not have described her to circles in whose more pre- cise vocabulary cleverness impl... ...Will was not always perfect, this was cer- tainly one of his good days. He described touches of incident among the poor people in Rome, only to be see... ...ting that house, but she liked, as she said, to see collections of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral; and she had persuaded Sir J... ...ed among them as if from the moon. This was the stranger 301 George Eliot described by Mrs. Cadwallader as frog-faced: a man perhaps about two or thr...