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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 fiercely th...

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... 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, wit... ...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 bur... ...and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulph... ..., whether any water be flowing or not. To the Editor of these sheets, as to a young enthusiastic Englishman, how ever unworthy, Teufelsdr¨ ockh opened... ...lms: a thousand carriages, and wains, cars, come tumbling in with Food, with young Rusticity, and other Raw Produce, inanimate or animate, and go tumb... ...ing, mantling, loveliest light; through those murky features, a radiant ever young Apollo looked; and he burst forth like the neighing of all Tattersa... ...sions, or even when it has exploded, so much as ascertain its significance. A dangerous, difficult temper for the modern European; above all, disadvanta... ...n.); little witting what hero was here entering to demolish him! We omit the series of Socratic, or rather Diogenic utterances, not unhappy in their w... ...ld 172 SARTOR RESARTUS the Editor construct; only, as was said, some zigzag series of rafts floating tumul tuously thereon. Alas, and the leaps from ...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable commun...

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...LACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59 -- 7 THE GOVERNOR?S HALL, 66 -- 8 THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER, 72 -- 9 THE LEECH, 79 -- 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT, 87 -- 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART, 95 -- 12 THE MINISTER?S VIGIL, 100 -- 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER, 108 -- 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN, 114 -- 15 HESTER ...

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...E GOVERNOR’S HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 8 THE ELF CHILD AND THE MINISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 9 THE LEECH . . . . . .... ...CH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 11 THE INTERIOR ... ... 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 15 HESTER AND... ... of the wrinkle browed, grizzly bearded, careworn merchant — we have the smart young clerk, who gets the taste of traffic as a wolf cub does of blood, ... ...urish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and re planted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn out soil. My children have had ... ...y their own lack of efficiency for business — they ought to have given place to younger men, more orthodox in politics, and altogether fitter than thems... ...nd vigorous step, and his hale and hearty as pect, altogether he seemed — not young, indeed — but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the s... ...s if grateful for his former appreciation, and seeking to repudiate an endless series of enjoyment. at once shadowy and sensual, A tender loin of beef... ...ced by the jealousy that seems instinctive with every pet ted child towards a dangerous rival, or from whatever caprice of her freakish na ture, Pea...

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...ing Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While some with sounding oars divide Of smoothly-flowing Thames the tide All sing the festive lay. W...

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... Muse, 11 -- Destruction of the Bastile, 12 -- Life, 14 -- Progress of Vice, 15 -- Monody on the Death of Chatterton, 16 -- An Invocation, 19 -- Anna and Harland, 20 -- To the Evening Star, 21 -- Pain, 22 -- On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius, 23 -- Monody on a Tea-kettle, 24 -- Genevieve, 26 -- On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister?s De...

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... . . . . . . . . 19 An Invocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Anna and Harland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 To the Evening Star . ... ...h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 The Kiss . . . . . . . . 80 To a Young Lady: with a Poem on the French Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . 93 Melancholy: A Fragment . . . . . . . . . . 94 To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it . . . . 95 Lines on a Frien... ... ‘‘Morning Chronicle’’ in December 1794 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 and January 1795 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 To the Honourable Mr. E... ...’ To Robert Southey of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of The ‘‘Retrospect’’, and other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Poems . . . . . . . ... ... . . . . 106 To an Infant . . . 107 To the Rev. W. J. Hort while teaching a Young Lady some Song-tunes on his Flute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... - 1 - Easter Holidays Coleridge: Poems Dura Navis 1787 To tempt the dangerous deep, too venturous youth, Why does thy breast with fondest wi... ...wing Poems will not disgrace your poetical department, I will transmit you a series of Sonnets (as it is the fashion to call them) addressed like the...

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...Meat -- DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was...

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...The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fa... ...he land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was ... ...er that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful an... ...out the task he had planned through the long hours of the night. Chopping down young saplings, he made them cross bars of a scaffold by lashing them ... ...er Cry 19 “They got Bill, an’ they may get me, but they’ll sure never get you, young man,” he said, addressing the dead body in its tree sepulchre. Th... ...’s course on the heels of the she wolf. It was he who snarled warningly at the younger members of the pack or slashed at them with his fangs when they... ...d against a rock. And with every rock he struck, he yelped. His progress was a series of yelps, from which might have been adduced the number of rocks... ...ully. Lip lip was White Fang’s own kind, and, being only a puppy, did not seem dangerous; so White Fang prepared to meet him in friendly spirit. But w... ... awaited him. The god sat down several feet away. White Fang could see nothing dangerous in that. When the gods administered punishment they stood on ...

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... Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their f...

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...on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could not go on living in... ...the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of thei... ...ot only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house ... ...th his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself. All he repented of was that he had not succeeded be... ... eyes to the fact. He had even supposed that she, a worn out woman no longer young or good looking, and in no way remarkable or interesting, merely a ... ...e need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a light carriage, and of a young person seeking a situation; but these items of information did not ... ... feeling in another person’s place was a spiritual exercise as a harmful and dangerous abuse of the fancy. “And the worst of it all,” thought he, “is ... ...ng the stiff Russian plural form, so impossibly frigid between them, and the dangerously intimate singular. “Forgive you? I’m so glad!” “But you’re il... ...s angry, and when his chin quivered, then, as Alexander Vronsky knew, he was dangerous. Alexander Vronsky smiled gaily. “I only wanted to give you Mot...

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...stern 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, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness o...

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...RS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAIN?A DESCENT?HURRIED DEPARTURE?A -- NEW SHIPMATE, 104 -- CHAPTER ...

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... FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS . . . . . . . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—TH... ... CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXIII — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES—MY WATCHMATE CHAPTER XXIV — SAN DIEGO AGAIN—A DESCENT—HUR... ...fternoon, 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... ...mate’s watch, had the opportunity of keeping the first watch at sea. S——, a young man, making, like myself, his first voyage, was in the same watch, ... ...mplain, and left it to the captain. He picked out an active and intelligent young sailor, born near the Kennebec, who had been several Canton voyages... ...o the forecastle as a common sailor, and lost the handle to his name, while young foremast Jim became Mr. Hall, and took up his quarters in the lan... ...bor is open to the N. N. E., and in fact nearly from N. to E., but the only dangerous winds being the south west, on which side are the highest moun... ...r, and breaks with so heavy a surf in the shallow waters, that it is highly dangerous to lie near in to the shore during the south easter season, tha... ...night, in Havana, a young shipmate of his was brought aboard drunk, with a dangerous gash in his head, and his money and new clothes stripped from h...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was ...

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...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A LIST OF INDIA...

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