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...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...

...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. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...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... ...e of his last letters to one of the donors. His prowess at cricket must be described in the words of his cousin, Arthur Duke Coleridge, who was at thi... ...r which makes the distances look distant indeed.’ This trip, so cheerfully described, was rather a pull on the frame which had yet to become seasoned ... ...med to recognise each cottage and its humble inmates, so faithfully had he described his old people and haunts. ‘One thing that specially impressed me... ... that anything that introduces European customs is no use yet. Pictures of animals are the best things. One or two of a railway, a great bridge, a vie... ... COLLEGE, NORFOLK . BARNABAS COLLEGE, NORFOLK ISL ISL ISL ISL ISLAND. 1867—1869. AND. 1867—1869. AND. 1867—1869. AND. 1867—1869. AND. 1867—1869. A NEW... ...remarkable one from young Atkin. Like master, like scholar:— ‘February 24, 1869. ‘My dear Mother,—You must not think about my coming back; I may have ...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

...The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents A Scandal in Bohemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I . . ... ...nture of the Copper Beeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 I T O SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always... ...is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was ... ...e returned to his plantation, where he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, ... ...s ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a book. It was headed, “March, 1869,” and beneath were the following enigmatical notices: 4th. Hudson ... ... this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say that all the other papers... ...ng the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, where she found matters as described by the last witness. Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave e... ...ng away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at t... ... I wish to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own age and posit...

...Excerpt: A Scandal in Bohemia; TO SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to lov...

...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue ...

...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 Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas, the Pe... ...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... ...rt from the third heaven to earth; he composed his face, as we have before described, and said, “I have read the letter, sir, and you have acted right... ..., but the executioner. As he thus reflected, he felt the sensation we have described, and which had hitherto been unknown to him, arise in his bosom, ... ...d a hollow sound in the wall against which he was lying. So many loathsome animals inhabited the prison, that their noise did not, in general, awake h... ...y your plans more accu- rately; we shall get out into the gallery you have described; kill the sentinel who guards it, and make our escape. All we req... ...Starvation!” exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. “Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that... ...t the end of a quarter of an hour he had killed a goat and two kids. These animals, though wild and agile as chamois, were too much like domestic goat...

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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...nts and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms o...

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...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regr...

...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 Treatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis, t... ...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... ...to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character necessary for the good life, but that life is for h... ...rtyna to draw up laws for a colony which they were founding. The situation described must have occurred frequently in actual life. The Greeks thought ... ...m as the scene of struggling factions. The causes of revo- lutions are not described as primarily changes in the concep- tion of the common good, but ... ...hrough choice, but by that natural impulse which acts both upon plants and animals also, for the pur- pose of their leaving behind them others like th... ... is just and what is unjust: for in this particular man differs from other animals, that he alone has a perception of good and evil, of just and unjus... ... one, is hurtful to all; and this holds true not only of man, but of other animals also, for tame animals are natu- rally better than wild ones, and i...

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...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...

...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 ... ..., 1831 (3rd edition. Leipzig, 1878). Didot Edition, Paris, 1840. Schomann, 1869. Koechly and Kinkel, Leipzig, 1870. Flach, Leipzig, 1874-8. Rzach, Lei... ... 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...

...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...

...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania 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... ...ography than the way in which seasons of lively and of difficult faith are described as alternating. Prob- ably every religious person has the recolle... ...rds rather than put it clearly to your thought. But, such as it is, I have described it as carefully as I now am able to do.” Here is another document... ...rld’s history, or against any trades or occupa- tions—not even against any animals, insects, or inani- mate things, nor any of the laws of nature, nor... ...the first sense of the word would never show. “I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them l... ...ionary process, and seems to con- stitute the whole of forethought in most animals; but that it should remain any part of the mental equip- ment of hu... ...o see got rid of at last. Now the gospel of healthy-mindedness, as we have described it, casts its vote distinctly for this pluralis- tic view. Wherea...

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... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ... nothing but the unvarying repetition of these duties, which can be better described together. Before leaving this description, however, I would st... ...bout a dozen years before, and they had not yet grown up again. The fire was described to me by an inhabitant, as having been a very terrible and m... ...dress, and language of the people. The dress of the men was as I have before described it. The women wore gowns of various texture—silks, crape, cali... ...themselves by walking. The fine air of the afternoon; the rapid rate of the animals, who seemed almost to fly over the ground; and the excite- ment ... ...e before spoken,—a sort of mixture of the fox and wolf breeds,—fierce little animals, with bushy tails and large heads, and a quick, sharp bark, aboun... ... there,) but there were none in our immediate neighborhood. The only other animals were horses. Over a dozen of these were owned by different peopl...

... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...