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...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for an... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University as- sumes any responsibility for the... ...xcuse a good deal of vio- lent language, and produce a wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of Amer... ...d, but actually to do it by starving the enemies who had thrown down their arms. It had, in short, won the election by pledging itself to be thriftles... ...ity so imminent that hardly by trying to suppress it in other countries by arms and defamation, and calling the process anti-Bolshe- vism, can our Gov... ...]. Won’t you take off your overcoat, Mr Dunn? You will find a cupboard for coats and hats and things in the corner of the hall. MAZZINI [hastily relea... ... lost in the darkness. After the ty- phoon, the flying-fish glitter in the sunshine like birds. It’s amazing how they get along, all things considered...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...lture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in the... ... Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,— it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental chara... ...morasses, lurking for his bestial or human prey; without implements, without arms, save the ball of heavy Flint, to which, that his sole possession an... ...shman and new comer in this Planet, sattest muling and puking in thy nurse’s arms; sucking thy coral, and looking forth into the world in the blankest... ...“Thou wilt have no Mystery and Mysticism; wilt walk through thy world by the sunshine of what thou callest Truth, or even by the hand lamp of what I c... ...Godlike. Under a like category, too, stand, or stood, the stupidest heraldic Coats of arms; military Banners everywhere; and generally all national or... ...te literally from the Original:— 178 SARTOR RESARTUS ARTICLES OF FAITH. ‘1. Coats should have nothing of the triangle about them; at the same time, w...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be calle...

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...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 ... ... P UBLICATION The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...lvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for an... ...ania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the... ...: “The Finns are extremely wild, and live in abject poverty. They have no arms, no horses, no dwellings; they live on herbs, they clothe themselves i... ...the highest of the Finnish deities. Frost, snow, hail, ice, wind and rain, sunshine and shadow, are thought to come from the hands of Ukko. He control... ...ever, described above, were conceived to have human forms. Where the three arms of the Tuoni river meet a frightful rock arises, called Kipu Kivi, or ... ...the rightful answer, Knew the truth was fully spoken, Straightway left her coats unbeaten, Left unwashed her linen garments, Left unrinsed her silks a... ...rom the chilling storms of winter, When her skirts with ice are stiffened, Coats of ice her only raiment! “Never in my days of childhood, Never in my ...