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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia a... ...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 by ... ... SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERIES, ADVENTURES, BATTLES, DARINGS AND SUFFERINGS OF THE HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLO... ... a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empir... ...Meeting the old chief of Amsterdam - - Description of the people -- An Utopian Republic -- A singular punishment for thieving -- Characteristics of th... ...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ...ng been careful to arouse their fervor by declaring that God would fight their battles for them, and that they were but instruments in His hands to ex... ... greater indignities, which Cortez had foreseen could not be continued without involving the Spaniards and Mexicans in open hostility. His next act wa... ...sk he desired them to undertake, nothing less than the suppression of a mutiny involving three-fourths of the men, of his fleet, but not a man faltere...
...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 earth. Reciting astonishing inci...
...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 -- T...
...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ...ctbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaiso... ...dia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan entry on page 274) 50 Christ... ...9 Cyprus 61 Czechoslovakia 62 D Denmark 64 Djibouti 05 Dominica 66 Dominican Republic 67 Ecuador 69 Egypt 70 El Salvador 72 Equatorial Guinea 74 Ethio... ...pines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198 Poland 199 Portugal 200 Qatar 202 Reunion 203 Romania 205 Rwanda 206 S St. Christopher and Nevis 207 St. Helena 20S St.... ...67 estimates of religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Inf... ...en by Co-Princes who ap- point two civil judges, a judge of appeals, and two battles (court prosecutors); final appeal to the Supreme Court of Andorra... ...ommon law; constitution adopted 1900; High Court has jurisdiction over cases involving interpretation of the constitution; accepts compulsory ICJ juri... ...: none; possible territo- rial claim in complex dispute over Spratly Islands involving China, Malaysia, Philip- pines, Taiwan, and Vietnam Climate: tr...
...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and sp...
...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...n.tripod.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. Abo... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United S... ...he space of two years in Slovakia (down 14 percent), in Poland (-7), in the Czech Republic (-6) and even in fervently pro-Western Bulgaria (-4 per... ... closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actually, the author thinks aloud, isn't America's re... ...nd religion - the mainstays of the American value system - were also the pivots of Roman society. Their work ethic was "Protestant" and their condu... ...ade of violent demonstrations, home-grown urban terrorism, and numerous skirmishes involving the National Guard and even, in violation of the Const... ...rgy Ministry concluded the negotiation of a 10-year collaborative effort with Japan involving the construction of oil and gas pipelines, the develop... ...sional conscience and one's propensity to live the good life. Only saints win such battles. Whatever UNMIK is - it is decidedly not saintly. But, a...
The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.
... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...sons for attacking Iraq were for its oil or to establish an American-like republic in the country, the reasons he gave to the world were that it was ... ...e or producing or watching child pornography have? What about pornography involving women—as things—as objects to be used. A female writer in Norway... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ...ee the God-inspired wars of the Jews in the Old Testament and the unending battles in the name of God during the last two millennia by the Christians... ...the more rational liberals dates from the 800s in Iraq. But inter-Islamic battles about who should lead the various sects also goes back to the begi... ... are supposedly educated! ―About twenty years ago I took a case involving ex post facto to the Supreme Court. (78a) A California teacher w...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemu...
...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...from our opposing thumbs. This entire evolutionary development and process involving millions of years: left the bottom half of our ancestors rel... ...evolving and not our bodies. Until. hominids could focus narrowly upon a task involving a high degree of hand-eye coordination and this adaptive tra... ...he culture of lions is based upon hatred, blood-letting and constant wars and battles against all other animal species in their territory. THE P... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...o Bonaparte’s new, more egalitarian legal system; and France finally became a Republic in name only… as it was the Emperor’s own nephew that won the ... ... Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal battles over the ownership of his patents. And what has happened since...
...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 ...
...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 ...
...vska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiters Web Site: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Inter... ...uide.html ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the We... ...VSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to ... ...e parchment - the hypertext. Early Jewish and Christian texts (as well as Roman legal scholarship) was written on parchment (and later printed) and i... ...r. The monopoly of the big publishing houses on everything written - from romance to scholarly journals - is a thing of the past. In a way, it is iro... ..., detailed maps and anatomical charts, and other graphics to their books. Battles fought between publishers-librarians over formats (book sizes) and... ...in Russia, web design services in former Yugoslavia, e-media in the Czech Republic and so on. But this is the reserve of a minuscule part of society... ...r this shortcoming: 1. Ethical – Experiments would have to be conducted, involving humans. To achieve the necessary result, the subjects will have ... ...fficulties arose: To determine what will happen in a specific experiment involving a specific particle and experimental setting – an observation mu...
...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....
...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ...es here: 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 ... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ... as illegal) – but that does not turn it into moral. Still, not every immoral act involving the termination of life can be classified as murder. P... ...l". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our clo... ... is the unnatural act. VIII. The Argument from Progress It is a circular syllogism involving a tautology and goes like this: Cannibalism is barbar... ...is it all-encompassing. Communism The core countries of Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experienced i... ...urprising and potentially useful insights. The Barbarian conquest of the teetering Roman Empire (410-476 AD) heralded five centuries of existential... ...nto decline. Instead of intelligently debating issues, they engaged in ideological battles, dogmatic quarrels, name-calling. The debate grew less p...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...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....
...UR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND THE NE... ...REUD--AND THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Po... ...as always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman ... ...nly with you, others want to be in on your monopoly. ―The Mid-East religions have been the worst. The Bible enumerates the numbers of battle... ... death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman ... ...h each can flourish that is far superior to what either could achieve alone.‘ ―The blue collar philosopher Frank Hoffer defined love as involv... ...ogressive society. But we couldn‘t be progressive if we didn‘t have new ideas stimulating our thinking. You know we have a dynamic democratic republ... ...ietal hypothesis! ―At the bottom of the happiness scales we have such countries as Zimbabwe, Congo and Burundi and the former Soviet republ...
...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD ...
...riginally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 F... ...SSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION ... ... control of programs calculated to influence the acceptability of social ideas and involving considerations of product planning, pricing, communicati... ...e specific episode; gossip is more general. Trade in rumors dates back to ancient Roman emperors who appointed public rumor wardens (called delatore... ...tplaces since time immemorial. From Plato's notions about the nature of a perfect republic to Marx's thoughts about an ultimate classless society, t... ...ncept market. Nor can the idea marketer afford to underestimate the importance of involving bureaucrats in the planning of programs. Calling gover... ...committed to social change over time. The 1950's and 1960's saw many fluoridation battles across the United States and dentists led the way. Since ... ...ies. PRODUCT STRATEGIES Branding A few years ago a man named John Adams won the Republican nomination in New Hampshire's First Congressional Dist...
...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These...
...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...e things should be sacred.” This book is an attempt to tell the story of the battles over intellectual property, the range wars of the information age... ...man, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to... ...ial was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who... ...a violation of copyright law? In a series of remarkable and far-seeing cases involving such issues, the courts said no. 22 “Decompilation” was fair us... ...e that Napster and Grokster—as individual companies—lost their specific legal battles. There are few heroes in this story. But if we had to rely on her... ...been produced. Such a law would be all restraint of expression, performance, republication, adap- tion, and so on, with no incentive benefits. The Cour... ...That is what the Farmers’ Tale was all about. Perhaps one day, in a case not involving a Norwegian teenager, a hacker maga- zine run by a long-haired ...
... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...
...... ...pedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serve the public, aid students and educ... ... he, Seattle, would buy time. He would be patient, and watch the outcome of the battles between the Great Sioux Nation and the blue coats. In his ni... ...ed him into the foyer that was formed in the shape of a rotunda. Huge Greek and Roman stat ues were perched in predesigned recesses around the circu... ...d she wanted to know why. Her and Pierce's relationship had been friendly, even roman tic, if you could call sex in the afternoon in his connubial o... ...e a true grass-roots move ment for product safety. I'm sure you're aware of his battles with General Motors." "I'm sorry. You're right. This is a g... ...an Cross is terrorism. There's a lunatic fringe that broke from the IRA (Irish Republican Army) after the peace agreement with En gland. They feel ... ... the truth. The final shoe dropped. Hawk had anticipated the animosity for not involving them in the press conference. He expected the hos~lity tow... ...o litical rivalry. The Executive Branch must continue as the foundation of our Republic." "Sounds like platitudes and campaign speech rhetoric to m...
...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection...
...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (k... ...When he had the ineluctable sympathy for another person, it deflated all the romance. He didn't mind that so much. To embark on a deep friendship wi... ...se; but all partners of the past seemed to him to have wanted only to cast a romantic aura around him as if scared to see the real person inside, and ... ...eving that a relentless cold stare would attenuate their cruelty, and yet no battles did she win with the Antarctic blasts that she sent their way una... ...'t involve myself in his business or his personal business and hope he isn't involving himself in mine. My life for now is a lot of books in my gradua... ..." she bantered. He smiled morosely. "The article said that in the Democratic Republic of Congo a door of a cargo plane fell open. The article said th...
...lutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...r, according to others again, to Ascanius, Aeneas’s son. Some tell us that Romanus, the son of Ulysses and Circe, built it; some, Romus the son of Ema... ...emember what a poet fortune sometimes shows herself, and consider that the Roman power would hardly have reached so high a pitch without a divinely or... ...mbly, lowered these also to the people, to show, in the strongest way, the republican foundation of the govern- ment; and this the consuls observe to ... ...y his choice of 179 Plutarch’s Lives him as his model in the formation of republican institutions; in reducing, for example, the excessive powers and... ...was sent into Spain, had driven the Carthaginians, defeated by him in many battles, out of the country, and had gained over to Rome many towns and nat... ...; his noble birth, his riches, the personal courage he had shown in divers battles, and the multitude of his friends and dependents, threw open, so to... ...is; but there his soldiers’ hearts failing, after exposing his project and involving the Spartans in a dangerous war, he retreated to Thespiae. After ...
...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...itnessed the agitations and terrors of the Restoration and of the Sec- ond Republic, fruitful in crime and sacrifice, and barren of any good to mankin... ...sted with the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqu... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...native strength. Religion is no less the com- panion of liberty in all its battles and its triumphs; the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source ... ...ties, took possession of the State: every class was enlisted in its cause; battles were fought, and victories obtained for it, until it became the law... ...e laws; and the President may frequently change his line of policy without involving the State in difficulty or destruction. Whatever the prerogatives... ...01 Tocqueville No great change takes place in human institutions with- out involving amongst its causes the law of inheritance. When the law of primog...
...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 th...
...Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ... the Persian acinacæ, but more curved, and for all the world most like the Roman sickles or sicæ.’ It is per- fectly magnificent, gentlemen, to hear t... ...l- derness, that Festus himself was obliged to march against them with the Roman legionary force.” Upon which Toad-in-the-hole, that cursed interrupte... ...r accordingly was cheerfully granted 59 to them in three great successive battles by the English and by the Turkish sultan, viz., at Crécy, at Nicopo... ...ury; but this resurrection of their trumpet wails made the whole series of battles and endless skirmishes take their stations as parts in one drama. T... ... the eye in one poem, unless by sacrificing all unity of theme, or else by involving the earlier half, as a narrative episode, in the latter;—this mig... ...ame which (aided by the wind of our motion) threatened a revolution in the republic of letters. But even this left the sanctity of the box unviolated.... ...been inherited from this ancient usage of Rome; one which belonged to Rome republican, as well as Rome imperial. The fiction in our modern practice is...
...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of s...
...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..........................................
...lutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...tellus, the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a str... ...served under Caepio, when the Cimbri and T eutones invaded Gaul; where the Romans fight- ing unsuccessfully , and being put to flight, he was wounded ... ...apt himself to any change of circumstances. Metellus had had experience in battles fought by regular legions of soldiers, fully armed and drawn up in ... ...atter if this Chersonesian pest should meet his death, who in thousands of battles had annoyed and wasted the Macedonians; it would be a much more gri... ...greater glory to Thebes than ever was acquired by any other of the Grecian republics, in their civil wars against each other. The behavior, notwithsta... ...any and powerful, it was feared that they might make some commotion in the republic, to prevent the execution of the law upon them for their cowardice... ...o his fellow citizens. For it will not even do to say, that he dreaded the involving the city in war, by seizing Nicanor, and hoped by professions of ...
...HOCION ..................................................................................................................................... 300 CATO THE YOUNGER ............................................................................................................... 330 AGIS ...............................................................................................
...wo Volumes Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawt... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication o... ...mance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania ... ...ront is like a page of black letter, taken from the history of the Italian republics.” “I know little or nothing of its history,” said the Count, glan... ...s with which Italy was plagued, by the dissensions of her petty states and republics, there was a demand for native hardihood. 19 Hawthorne The succe... ...torial art, devoutly exercised, might effect in behalf of religious truth; involving, as it does, deeper mysteries of revelation, and bring- ing them ... ...s, had only sufficed to make that handful of precious ashes the nucleus of battles, long ages after her death. A little beyond this point, the sculpto...
...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of T...
...te Two Volumes in One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a p... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsy... ...n, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylva- nia State Univ... ...s gat:e of Rome,—a tract where the crimes and calamities of ages, the many battles, blood recklessly poured out, and deaths of myriads, have corrupted... ...ion for Miriam has introduced him familiarly to our little circle; and our republican and artistic simplicity of intercourse has included this young I... ...ch of Titus, the Roman armies had trodden in their outward march, to fight battles a world’s width away. Returning victorious, with royal captives and... ...e suffered chance to direct her steps as it would. Thus it happened, that, involving herself in the crookedness of Rome, she saw Hilda’s tower rising ... ...torial art, devoutly exercised, might effect in behalf of religious truth; involving, as it does, deeper mysteries of revelation, and bring- ing them ...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most patheti...
...wo Volumes Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a p... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsy... ...n, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylva- nia State Univ... ...s gat:e of Rome,—a tract where the crimes and calamities of ages, the many battles, blood recklessly poured out, and deaths of myriads, have corrupted... ...ion for Miriam has introduced him familiarly to our little circle; and our republican and artistic simplicity of intercourse has included this young I... ...at its base. All Roman works and ruins (whether of the empire, the far-off republic, or the still more distant kings) assume a transient, visionary, a... ...ch of Titus, the Roman armies had trodden in their outward march, to fight battles a world’s width away. Returning victorious, with royal captives and... ...e suffered chance to direct her steps as it would. Thus it happened, that, involving herself in the crookedness of Rome, she saw Hilda’s tower rising ...