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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...ations it may be proper to add a recollection of the ridiculousness of the military character. Its first constituent is obedience: a soldier is, of al... ...nd more perpendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this na... ...in Tartary 49 degrees north latitude, of greater antiquity than either the Indians, the Chinese, or the Chaldeans, from whom these nations derived the... ...position of an event without a cause, a voluntary action without a motive. History, politics, morals, criticism, all grounds of reasonings, 168 Volum... ...s put into our hands when children, called the Bible, the purport of whose history is briefly this: That God made the earth in six days, and there pla... ...reasoning is superfluous. The Mahometan dies fighting for his prophet, the Indian immolates himself at the chariot- wheels of Brahma, the Hottentot wo...

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