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...niel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR TH... ... least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England. We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness.” “W... ...at he could distinguish the accents of towns 26 Mosses from an Old Manse people of his own, men and women, both pious and un godly, many of whom he... ...ard with the instinct that guides mortal man to evil. The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds—the creaking of the trees, the howling of wil... ...t of the window, and you will see as bright sun shine as you have left in Naples.” Guasconti mechanically did as the old woman advised, but could not... ...accini, the famous doctor, who, I warrant him, has been heard of as far as Naples. It is said that he distils these plants into medicines that are as ...

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... words a more universal criticism of life than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “Give me back, give me back, the wild f... ...ut it; I do not think that we could de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and i... ...ga- docio can go together, that the man of honour may be a selfish pedant. People have been unwilling to tell and to hear the whole truth even about W... ...and true are Colo- nel James and his wife. They are both very good sort of people in a way, who live in a lax and frivolous age, who have plenty of mo... ... will be inclined to pardon many faults for the plea- sure he will receive from a tender sensation: and for readers of a different stamp, the more fau... ...least requires strength of body, are chosen out of those poor old decrepit people who are, from their want of bodily strength, rendered incapable of g... ...Livilla, Messalina, Agrippina, Brunichilde, Elfrida, Lady Macbeth, Joan of Naples, Chris- tina of Sweden, Katharine Hays, Sarah Malcolm, Con Philips,*...

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...rles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...University is an equal opportunity University. 3 Charles Dickens Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens THE READER’S PASSPORT IF THE READERS OF T... ...ions—mere shadows in the water—of places to which the imaginations of most people are attracted in a greater or less degree, on which mine had dwelt f... ...nd touch it. For it is something to touch a carriage that has held so many people. It is a legacy to leave one’s children. The rooms are on the first ... ..., in white; with canvassed stalls; and fluttering merchandise. The country people are grouped about, with their clean baskets before them. Here, the l... ...at these ceremonies, and to wear black veils), a royal box for the King of Naples and his party; and the table itself, which, set out like a ball sup ... ...ed, as if by a miracle, reveals—in the far distance, across the sea there!—Naples with its is lands, and Vesuvius spouting fire! Within a quarter of ... ...osphere of the day, like a dense cloud. So we go, rattling down hill, into Naples. A funeral is coming up the street, towards us. The body, on an open...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...antime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their se... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...ady, who cannot bear to be mixed up in any common charge together with low people, abomi- nates such words as ‘sin,’ and wills that the parson should ... ...level with the first-rate capitalists of the Continent—with Vienna or with Naples; far superior 24 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two ...

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...al opportunity University. George Romney. The Tempest, c. 1790. Engraving from Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery; original 17.25 X 23.25 inches. THE TEM... ...ches. THE TEMPEST (written about 1610) DRAMATIS PERSONAE ALONSO: King of Naples. SEBASTIAN: his brother. PROSPERO: the right Duke of Milan. ANTONI... ...: his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan. FERDINAND: son to the King of Naples. GONZALO: an honest old Counsellor. ADRIAN & FRANCISCO: Lords. CAL... ...good hearts! Out of our way, I say. [Exit.] GONZALO: I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexio... ...me I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand, And pluck my magic garment from me. So: [Lays down his mantle .] Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine ey... ...nks me now incapable; confederates— So dry he was for sway—wi’ the King of Naples To give him annual tribute, do him homage, Subject his coronet to hi... ... My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not, So dear the love my people bore me, nor set A mark so bloody on the business, but With colors f... ... CALIBAN: O ho, O ho! would’t had been done! Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. PROSPERO: Abh... ...ing forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people. SEBASTIAN: No marrying ‘mong his subjects? ANTONIO: None, man; al...

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...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ...the Abbaye; answered on the steps of Saint-Roch; answered once more by the people against the king before the Louvre in 1830, as it has since been ans... ... must defend itself when attacked; but the strange thing is that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called ... ... victory over the nobility, power is called murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbe... ...nt-Angelo, Strozzi was delivered up by Clement as a hos- tage and taken to Naples. As the Pope, when he got his lib- erty, turned savagely on his enem... ...ive to France three pearls of inestimable value, namely: Genoa, Milan, and Naples.” The Pope left Sebastiano Montecuculi to present himself to the cou... ...i alliance which shall recognize your fiefs in Piedmont, the Milanais, and Naples, where you have rights. These, mon- sieur, are the reasons of the wa...

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...nder the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Y our shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at e... ...led me the hyacinth girl.’ 4 The Waste Land Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Sp... ...to see. I do not find The Hanged Man. Fear death by water. I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring. Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone, ... ...he marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80 (Another hi... ...an connect Nothing with nothing. The broken fingernails of dirty hands. My people humble people who expect Nothing.’ la la To Carthage then I cam... .... The Phoenician Sailor and the Merchant appear later; also the ‘crowds of people’, and Death by Water is executed in Part IV . The Man with Three St... ...ian Sailor, and the latter is not wholly distinct from Ferdinand Prince of Naples, so all the women are one woman, and the two sexes meet in Tiresias....

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...e mumble and the nasty chin—how can a man contrive to be always three days from shaving?— and a sort of furtive air of being en- gaged in sneaking in ... ...It seems he has some brilliant research on hand that he suspects me of all people—with a Bodley Booklet a-printing!—of stealing. He has taken remarkab... ...ch should be at choice ei- ther heavier or lighter than air. He took hints from the con- tractile bladders of fish and the pneumatic cavities of birds... ...een en- 8 Twelve Stories and a Dream tirely dependent on his small income from this source— making misdirected attempts to assure a quite indifferent... ... orders and two lady cyclists seem almost to complete the list of educated people. There were two reporters present, one representing a Folkestone pap... ...ne as much as could be expected of her. But she said a great deal to other people. And at last, without any undue haste or unseemliness, the day dawne... ...ar away to the left Ischia hung in a golden haze between sea. and sky, and Naples was coldly white against the hills, and before us was Vesuvius with ... ...8 Twelve Stories and a Dream Evesham’s fighting machines hanging high over Naples like an evening swarm of gnats. “It seemed to have no more to do wit...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...such an undertaking. I have heard a brother of the story-telling trade, at Naples, preaching to a pack of good-for-nothing honest lazy fellows by the ... ...t have we any leisure for a description of Brighton?—for Brighton, a clean Naples with genteel lazzaroni—for Brighton, that always looks brisk, gay, a... ...ich there seldom comes any smoke now. For the present Lord Steyne lives at Naples, preferring the view of the Bay and Capri and V esuvius to the drear...

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...ion in The Atlantic Monthly, where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also open to it, fr... ...it of a Lady merely to help him out with a lame phrase; they draw him away from his small question to their own greater ones; so that, after a little,... ... flower there; and, quite as much, these fine possibilities of recovering, from some good standpoint on the ground gained, the intimate history of the... ...ving ‘story’ enough. I seem to myself to have as much as I need—to show my people, to exhibit their relations with each other; for that is all my meas... ... attendants and enter- 15 Henry James tainers who come down by train when people in the coun- try give a party; they represented the contract for car... ...ere are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do,—the situation is in itself delightful. Those tha... ...ler. “Have you lived here always?” “No, not always. I lived a long time at Naples, and many years in Rome. But I’ve been here a good while. Perhaps I ... ...vel. Miss Stackpole had remained behind; she was planning a little trip to Naples, to be carried out with Mr. Bantling’s aid. Isabel was to have three... ...Isabel—the temporary absence, once again, of Madame Merle, who had gone to Naples to stay with a friend, the happy possessor of a villa at Posilippo. ...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...Doctor Parker Peps would walk upstairs again. ‘Good! W e must not disguise from you, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps, ‘that there is a want of power in ... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ...t-time, when it came with the water-carts and the old clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the... ...kitchen-range as curiously as into the attic clothes-press. Stout men with napless hats on, look out of the bedroom windows, and cut jokes with friend... ...and Christian, the strangers fluffy and snuffy, and the stout men with the napless hats, congregate about it and sit upon everything within reach, man...

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...KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...tories KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev T ranslated From The Russian By Constance Garnett KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK A STUDY I WE ALL ... ...he ‘thirties his fame was above everyone’s—and in the opinion of the young people of the day Pushkin could not hold candle to him. He not only enjoyed... ...lligence and education—but because the stamp which dis- tinguishes “fatal” people was discerned in him. No one of his fellow officers expected that T ... ...ng ... suddenly one of them stopped: he saw a little dog some twenty paces from the bank on the slowly moving surface of the river. Perched on a proje... ...made her her heiress. On her return to her own relations, poor and drunken people, Masha’s lot was a bitter one. Tyeglev had promised to marry her and... ...you Mr. Florestan. At Riga we had a Mr. Florestan. He sold capital gros-de-Naples in his shop and was a handsome man, as good-looking as you. But how ...

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...d it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an ... ... that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the un- known painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or l... ...g, 1914. 6 The Moon and Sixpence who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanati... ...and then, sick with apprehension, was ushered into an airless room full of people. I was introduced to this celebrated person after that one, and the ... ...one another. You’ll meet him if you dine there. But she doesn’t often have people to dinner. He’s very quiet. He’s not in the least interested in lite... ...beginning to doubt it.” Strickland gave the polite little laugh with which people acknowledge a facetiousness in which they see nothing funny , but di... ...h is excited in the human heart by the sight of a lovely woman, the Bay of Naples under the yellow moon, and the Entombment of Titian. It is possible ...

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...e is no doubt that earth and stones were frequently brought by cru- saders from the Holy Land with a view to the hallowing of their own tombs. The aut... ...of all inevitable faults, this style of composition does tend to fix young people’s interest and attention on the scenes it treats of, and to vivify t... ... characters it describes; and if this sketch at all tends to prepare young people’s minds to look with sympathy and appreciation on any of the great c... ...Leonillo bounded forward to meet a stout hardy forester, who was advancing from the opposite end of the glade. This was a man of the largest and most ... ...ar these tidings?” inquired the boy, chang- ing his mood to a graver one. “From the monk to whom you confessed a fortnight back. Did you let him know ... ...s to the noble temper that actuated him in his championship of the English people, they became mere lawless rebels—fiercely profiting by his elevation... ...y. King Charles invited him to spend Christmas at the court at Syracuse or Naples, in hopes, perhaps, of persuading him to the Greek expedition; but E...

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...asy vacuity, rather than pester it with a vain set of dates relating to actions which are in themselves not worth a fig, or with a parcel of names of people whom it can do one no earthly good to remember....

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...ions which are in themselves not worth a fig, or with a parcel of names of people whom it can do one no earthly good to remember. 4 The Second Funera... ... are ac- quainted with what is called Grecian and Roman his- tory, chiefly from perusing, in very early youth, the little sheepskin-bound volumes of t... ...ot. Suppose, for instance, your mamma had purchased her tea in the Borough from a grocer living there by the name of Greenacre: suppose you had been a... ...ackeray rightly, and great and small actions to be weighed prop- erly, and people to be stripped of their royal robes, beg- gars’ rags, generals’ unif... ...” and make us believe that they are warriors. Fools look very solemnly out from the dusk of the leaves, and we fancy in the gloom that they are sages.... ... numberless pamphlets and newspapers out of doors joined in the talk. Some people there were who had fought and conquered and been beaten with the gre... ...he greatest of slaves—State affairs of consequence—his Majesty the King of Naples is detained no doubt. When we last saw the King, however, and his Hi...

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...eries of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...pace and Time, no short story of mine of the slight- est merit is excluded from this volume. Many of very ques- tionable merit find a place; it is an ... ...ears I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the la... ...well as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short s... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...me. I make no claims for them and no apology; they will be read as long as people read them. Things written either live or die; unless it be for a pla... ...Far away to the left Ischia hung in a golden haze between sea and sky, and Naples was coldly white against the hills, and before us was V esuvius with... ...he northward, and very high, Gresham’s fighting machines hanging high over Naples like an evening swarm of gnats. “It seemed to have no more to do wit...

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...rs of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from ca- price, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple ... ...tent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer’s uniform. >From the moment we had no rest till we could find some trace in contemporar... ... against the king, but never against cardinal or Spain. It resulted, then, from this habit that on the said first Monday of April, 1625, the citizens,... ...n in botany, but till the present time very rare among horses.” “There are people who laugh at the horse that would not dare to laugh at the master,” ... ...ground, covered with blood and almost fainting. It was at this moment that people came flocking to the scene of action from all sides. The host, fearf... ...re he does. He causes a disturbance in your hos- telry , which respectable people cannot put up with. Go; make out my bill and notify my servant.” “Wh... ...s for from announcing the dis- tress of the interior. His hat was a little napless, his feather was a little faded, his gold lace was a little tarnish...

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...e is slain, they’ll quickly fly. KING HENRY VI : Far be the thought of this from Henry’s heart, To make a shambles of the parliament house! Cousin of... ...And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget That we are those which chased you from the field And slew your fathers, and with colors spread March’d thro... ... You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose. Father, tear the crown from the usurper’s head. EDWARD: Sweet father, do so; set it on your hea... ...to shame thee, wert thou not shameless. Thy father bears the type of King of Naples, Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem, Yet not so wealthy as an Englis... ...o be avoided, As venom toads, or lizards’ dreadful stings. RICHARD: Iron of Naples hid with English gilt, Whose father bears the title of a king,— As... ...h commixture melts. Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York, The common people swarm like summer flies; And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?... ...l us, all our hope is done: Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help; Our people and our peers are both misled, Our treasures seized, our soldiers ... ... I pawn my credit and mine honor. KING LEWIS XI : But is he gracious in the people’s eye? WARWICK: The more that Henry was unfortunate. KING LEWIS X...

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...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ... high ground, and to say that we, the older and therefore more experienced people as regards the United States, and the better gov- erned as regards F... ...ple? And is this the doctrine preached now, of all times, when the King of Naples and the Italian dukes have just been dismissed from their thrones wi... ... the ground at the first glance of her sword. This was so the other day in Naples, when Garibaldi blew away the king’s armies with a breath. But this ... ...ful adherence is not possible. Could King Bomba have welcomed Garibaldi to Naples? Can the Pope shake hands with Victor Emmanuel? Could the En- glish ...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...Leghorn. Out again for Civita Vecchia. so away to—hey! there’s no room for Naples;’ he had got to the wall by this time; ‘but it’s all one; it’s in th... ... a red sash round his waist, and a knife in it. ‘Judge if I come back from Naples as I went! See here, my master! Civita V ecchia, Leghorn, Porto Fino... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...ckle which altogether nearly poked his hat off. A greasy hat it was, and a napless; impending over his eyes, cracked and crumpled at the brim, and wit...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...be seen in the time that we have to travel. We must, to be sure, see Rome, Naples, Florence, and Venice, and as much more as we can.’ (Speaking with a... ...dy Margaret’s horse should stumble.’ Lord Graham commended Dr. Drummond at Naples, as a man of extraordinary talents; and added, that he had a great l...

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... of their youth. But those who write in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their affections and ... ... in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their affections and comprehension are with the fathers, ... ...s still a sense of experience, and a pleasure in tracing the perspec- tive from another point of sight, where what was once dis- tant has become near ... ...early days with Beechcroft, Stoneborough, and V ale Leston, when they were peopled with the outcome of a youthful mind, and that they may be ready to ... ...t take Clement a bunch of those dear white violets. I know where they came from,” and she held them to her lips. “Some primroses too, I hope.” “A few;... ...yellow dust.” “I don’t want to worry her, but there never were such groovy people as you are! I shall think it over, and make up my mind by the time I... ...in Italy.” “The one,” said Gillian, “where Padua got into the king- dom of Naples, and the lady of the house lighted a lucifer match, besides the hors...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on Go... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...at’s the use? It’s finished now.” Sophie looked up quickly from the Bay of Naples. “As far as my business goes, I shall have to live on my rents like ... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...h my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—the Lashmar...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, h...

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... previ ous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been ... ... to meet with general acceptance as if they were. It seems to me, however, from various indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Ref... ... o these stand opposed another kind of political reasoners, who are so far from assimilating a form of government to a machine, that they regard it as... ..., and adapt ourselves to them. The fundamental political institutions of a people are considered by this school as a sort of organic growth from the n... ...y this school as a sort of organic growth from the nature and life of that people; a product of their habits, instincts, and unconscious wants and des... ... last, and, by successive aggrega tion, constitute a polity suited to the people who possess it, but which it would be vain to attempt to superinduce... ...ct XIV ., of Ganganelli, of Pombal, of D’Aranda; when the very Bourbons of Naples were liberals and reformers, and all the active minds among the nobl... ...igions. Sicily has hitherto felt itself quite distinct in nationality from Naples, notwithstanding identity of religion, almost identity of lan guage...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ... in the coun- try. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...ld lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ...ps. One, chiefly mascu- line, had formed round the abbe. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful Princess Helene, Prince Vasili’s da... ...e Rhine; how fifty thou- sand Russians and as many English were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand men was to attack th... ...nce, when Julner, the French colonel, whispered respectfully: “The King of Naples!” It was, in fact, Murat, now called “King of Naples.” Though it was... ... of Naples.” Though it was quite incomprehensible why he should be King of Naples, he was called so, and was himself con- vinced that he was so, and t...

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...at motion; but at the same time, a large propor- tion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of con- tinuous motion into discontinuous eleme... ...tortoise. By the time Achilles has covered the distance that separated him from the tortoise, the tortoise has covered one tenth of that distance ahea... ...absurd answer (that Achilles could never over- take the tortoise) resulted from this: that motion was arbitrarily divided into discontinuous elements,... ...eteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. Men leave their customary pursuits, hasten from one side of Europe ... ...evolution”; then they give a detailed biography of Napoleon and of certain people favorable or hostile to him; tell of the influence some of these peo... ...FORCES OF A DOZEN EUROPEAN nations burst into Russia. The Russian army and people avoided a collision till Smolensk was reached, and again from Smolen... ... rode a detachment of Wurttemberg hussars and behind them rode the King of Naples himself ac- companied by a numerous suite. About the middle of the A... ...x times in succession and march as if on parade. Fine fellows! Our King of Naples, who knows what’s what, cried ‘Bravo!’ Ha, ha! So you are one of us ... ...le, you ought to know us better than that. We took Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, Naples, Rome, Warsaw, all the world’s capitals…. We are feared, but we are ...

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...emn emo- tion— Its ability to overcome unhappiness— Need of such a faculty from the biological point of view. LECTURE III THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN Pe... ...logy— Does transcendental idealism fare better? Its principles— Quotations from John Caird— They are good as restatements of religious experience, but... ...arned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is ... ...nging places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and tha... ...f lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsenti- mental people so often pass on their more sentimen- 19 William James tal acquaint... ...ing persons whose states of mind we regard as overstrained. But when other people criticize our own more exalted soul-flights by calling them ‘nothing... ...testant Adolphe Monod makes to the crisis of his own conversion. It was at Naples in his early manhood, in the summer of 1827. “My sadness,” he says, ...

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...es in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is chosen King by the Bo... ...ical sym- pathy announced itself; a desolating war of thirty years, which, from the interior of Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the bank... ... was the result of the war. As the sparks of de- struction found their way from the interior of Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria, to kindle Ger- many, Fr... ...werless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so willing to espouse their cause,... ...r blood for the personal objects of their princes. And well was it for the people that, on this occasion, their interests coincided with those of thei... ...nnect the in- terests of the cabinet with some one that sits nearer to the people’s heart, if such exists, or if not, to create it. In such a position... ...st dangerous situation; hemmed in on both sides by the Spanish Viceroys of Naples on the one side, and that of Milan upon the other. Venice was confin...

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...land; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come i...

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... Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought hom... ...which were brought home by their T urkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but a... ... have lived to see practised since. But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from ... ...l was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and ... ...rtality in the usual manner, thus – Plague, 2. Parishes infected, 1. The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the... ...ther house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the people’s eyes pretty much towards that end of the town, and the weekly bill... ...ally had the plague upon them.’ ‘ An Italian gentlewoman just arrived from Naples, having a choice secret to prevent infection, which she found out by... ...d there would have died twenty thou- sand a day , as they say there did at Naples;, nor would the people have been able to have helped or assisted one... ... which were then in the river loading for Italy – that is, for Leghorn and Naples – being denied product, as they call it, went on to T urkey, and wer...