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... Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facu... ...versity is an equal opportunity University. Paradise Lost A Poem In T welve Books The Author John Milton The Second Edition Revised and Augmented by ... ...omt he troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming. Paradise Lost Milton 3 BOOK I THE ARGUMENT This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole s... ...ecords now Be no memorial, blotted out and ras’d By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life. Nor had they yet among the Sons of EVE Got them new Names,... ...ng floore his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff. On th’ other side SATAN allarm’d Collecting all his might dilated stood, Like TENERIFF or ATLAS unremov’d:...

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...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but ...

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...K ORAN admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging... ...d the East have to reckon to-day. The secret of the power exercised by the book, of course, lay in the mind which produced it. It was, in fact, at fir... ...course, lay in the mind which produced it. It was, in fact, at first not a book, but a strong living voice, a kind of wild authoritative proclamation,... ...sed to turbulent and largely hostile as- semblies of untutored Arabs. As a book it was published af- ter the prophet’s death. In Muhammed’s life-time ... ...speaking of Muhammed, and in trying to appraise the religious value of the book one is at the same time attempting to form an opinion of the prophet h... ...ue in haste to follow and master this revelation: 3 For we will see to the collecting and the recital of it; But when we have recited it, then follow ...

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...published about the year 1872, and reminding us of the time when Tolstoy was absorbed in efforts to educate the peasant children. This section of the book contains the two stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy likes best. In What is Art? he claims no place among examples of good art for any of his own productions ?except for the story God sees the Truth, but Wai...

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...absorbed in efforts to educate the peasant chil dren. This section of the book contains the two stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy like... ...o all is enormous, and it is as yet almost untouched.’ The sections of the book have been arranged in chro nological order. The date when each story ... ...a little money, with which he bought The Lives of the Saints. He read this book when there was light enough in the prison; and on Sundays in the priso... ...y, ’ said he, ‘then you may have your pick of the skins. We know what debt collecting is like. ’ So all the business the shoemaker did was to get the ... ...aw had a hen that began laying rather early in the season, and she started collecting its eggs for Easter. Every day she went to the cart shed, and fo... ...son was making straps for bark shoes, his second sat near the table with a book, and Tarás was getting ready to go out to pasture the horses for the n... ...stoy : “Two Old Men” 101 prayed, placed candles at the shrines, handed in book lets inscribed with his parents, names, that they might be mentioned ...

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...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 of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up my pursuits, and which no medical aid seemed likely to cure....

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... Years Before the Mast by Richard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast ... ... cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up... ... done. The mate (as he is always called, par excellence) also keeps the log book, for which he is responsible to the owners and insurers, and has t... ... their clothes. If the weather is pleasant, they bring their work and their books upon deck, and sit down upon the forecastle and windlass. This is... ...in the crown of my tarpaulin, and carefully pressed between the leaves of a book. About an hour before sun down, having stowed our water casks, ... ... were expecting from Boston. After lying here about a fortnight, and collecting all the hides the place afforded, we set sail again for San Pe... ...was aroused by the distant shouts of my companions, and saw that they were collecting together, as the agent had made his appearance, on his way ba... ...ody do theirs, and won’t be imposed upon either by captain or crew.’’ After collecting all the information we could get on this point, we asked som... ... almost every hour, without cessation. This was bad for our trade, for the collecting of hides is managed differently in this port from what it is ...

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... T Leo T Leo T Leo Tols ols ols ols olst t t t to o o o oy y y y y B B B B BOOK SIX: 1 OOK SIX: 1 OOK SIX: 1 OOK SIX: 1 OOK SIX: 1808-1 808-1 808-1 80... ...0 0 0 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Six by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- ... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Six by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK SIX: 1808-10 CHAPTER I PRINCE ANDREW HAD SPENT two years continuously ... ...xpressed to Pierre, he diligently followed all that went on, received many books, and to his surprise noticed that when he or his father had visitors ... ...uniforms and decorations at which they aimed in ordinary life. Often after collecting alms, and reckoning up twenty to thirty rubles received for the ...

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... T Leo T Leo T Leo Tols ols ols ols olst t t t to o o o oy y y y y B B B B BOOK OOK OOK OOK OOK ELEVEN ELEVEN ELEVEN ELEVEN ELEVEN: 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1... ...2 2 2 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- ... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 CHAPTER I ABSOLUTE CONTINUITY of motion is not comprehens... .... This modern branch of mathematics, unknown to the an- 4 War and Peace – Book Eleven cients, when dealing with problems of motion admits the con- ce... ...he head of the family, Count Ilya Rostov, continually drove about the city collecting the current rumors from all sides and gave superficial and hasty...

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...by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book. What at- tracts and impresses us in El Burlador de Sevilla is not the... ...fter coil about him until he is secured for ever! If the really impressive books and other art-works of the world were produced by ordinary men, they ... ...in some degree of all geniuses and all women. Hence it is that the world’s books get written, its pictures painted, its statues modelled, its symphoni... ...sm are equally unreal in the great Philistine world. The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in cod... ...he line of least resistance. Hence there is a driving towards truth in all books on matters where the writer, though exceptionally gifted is normally ... ...ics some day, Jack. 80 GB Shaw TANNER. [heavily let down] Eh? What? Wh—? [Collecting his scattered wits] What has that got to do with what I have bee...

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...ed among hin- drances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed. BOOK I MISS BROOKE CHAPTER I “Since I can do no good because a woman, ... ... fasting like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a 7 George Eliot wife might awaken you some fine morning with ... ...is own which were to be more clearly ascertained on the publication of his book. His very name carried an im- pressiveness hardly to be measured witho... ... Mr. Casaubon. “I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. There is a book, now. I took in all the new ideas at one time—human perfectibility, no... ...ave Thought; else we shall be landed back in the dark ages. But talking of books, there is Southey’s `Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning.... ...ny act that seemed a triumphant eluding of his purpose revolted her. After collecting papers of business which she wished to ex- amine, she locked up ... ...a sur- prise to his system which tended to scatter his energies instead of collecting them Pray pity him: so many English gentlemen make themselves mi...

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...s an equal opportunity university. War and Peace by Leo T olstoy/T olstoi BOOK ONE: 1805 CHAPTER I “WELL, PRINCE, so Genoa and Lucca are now just fam... ...ady’s maid, also big. She said...” Here Prince Hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with difficulty. “She said... Oh yes! She said, ‘Girl,... ...from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar’s Commentaries), and resting on h... ...s full of things evidently in con- stant use. The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted bookcases with keys in the locks, t... ...the high desk for writing while standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered ar... ...aid severely: “Quite well? All right then, sit down.” He took the exercise book containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair ... ...in peaceful occu- pations, the cavalry feeding the horses and the infantry collecting wood. “He higher iss dan I in rank,” said the German colonel of ... ...fled shout almost behind them in the wood. The French had attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. It was no longer possible for the hussars to ... ...uniforms and decorations at which they aimed in ordinary life. Often after collecting alms, and reckoning up twenty to thirty rubles received for the ...

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...n it had hith- erto received might be looked for. In the earlier series of books containing, among others, Bosanquet’s “History of Aesthetic,” Pfleide... ...ways, of the expectations of the original editor. H. D. Lewis PREFACE This book has grown out of an attempt to harmonize two different tendencies, one... ...een published in the Athenaeum. There are a few allusions to China in this book, all of which were written before I had been in China, and are not int... ...al * This is explicitly the case with Mach’s “Analysis of Sensa- tions,” a book of fundamental importance in the present con- nection. (Translation of... ...eories of psychoanalytic pioneers, it will be worth while to read a little book by Dr. Bernard Hart on “The Psychology of Insanity.”* On this question... ...sent purpose they are not vital, and I shall ignore them. Instead of first collecting together all the particulars consti- tuting a momentary thing, a...

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... was a con- stant reader up to the day of his death in his eightieth year. Books were scarce in the Western Reserve during his youth, but he read ever... ...oks were scarce in the Western Reserve during his youth, but he read every book he could borrow in the neighbor- hood where he lived. This scarcity ga... .... Grant of studying everything he read, so that when he got through with a book, he knew everything in it. The habit continued through life. Even afte... ...ere is a fine library connected with the Academy from which cadets can get books to read in their quarters. I devoted more time to these, than to book... ... historical works, besides an occasional novel. To help my memory I kept a book in which I would write up, from time to time, my recollections of all ... ...or Pittsburg landing, knowing that the enemy was fortifying at Corinth and collecting an army there under Johnston. It was my expectation to march aga... ...SHERMAN’S MOVEMENTS DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI— VAN DORN CAPTURES HOLLY SPRINGS— COLLECTING FORAGE AND FOOD VICKSBURG WAS IMPORTANT to the enemy because it ... ...by the muddy roads over which we expected to march. Before this I had been collecting, from St. Louis and Chi- cago, yawls and barges to be used as fe... ...en; in fact, as I learned afterwards, with nearly 50,000. A force was also collecting on my right, at Jackson, the point where all the railroads commu...

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................................................ ........................250 BOOKIIRUNEXXVWAINAMOINEN SWEDDING-SONGS....................................... ...a. It appeared in 1733, and bore the title: De Effectibus Naturalibus. The book contains a quaint collec tion of Finnish poems in lyric forms, chiefl... ...sad and trying circumstance did not dampen his enthusi asm. His manner of collecting these songs was as follows: Knowing that the Finns of Russia pre... ...e might gather new fragments of the national epic. Thus the first glory of collecting the frag ments of the Kalevala and of rescuing it from literary... ...priscorum Fennorum numine. In the year 1828, he travelled as far as Kajan, collecting poems and songs of the Finnish people, sitting by the fireside o... ...e hearts of the simple minded people that they most willingly aided him in collecting these songs. These journeys were made through wild fens, forests... ...w the genuineness and antiquity of the Kalevala, Barna adduces a Hungarian book written by a certain Peter Bornemissza, in 1578, entitled ordogi Kiser... ...py of which he found in the library of the University of Budapest. In this book Bornemissza collected all the incantations (raolvasasok) in use among ... ... the hero, From the home of the successful. 260 The Kalevala THE KALEVALA BOOK II BOOK II BOOK II BOOK II BOOK II R R R R RUNE XXV UNE XXV UNE XXV UN...

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... exclude all but the favourite object—and ended by spoiling a child’s copy-book, which he rolled up so as to serve for the darkened tube of an amateur... ...g carried into effect; so that, when the clergy- man had opened his prayer-book, an officer of the law, sup- ported by some armed men, commanded him t... ...proceeded to walk abroad, as if 38 Bride of Lammermoor for the purpose of collecting his ideas, and reflecting farther on the consequences of the ste... ... old cellar did he set a-tilt, and shake with the desperate expectation of collecting enough of the grounds of claret to fill the large pewter measure... ...s. The strag- gling riders began now to rally towards the scene of action, collecting from different points as to a common centre. Bucklaw kept the st... ...lean daft—red wud, and awa’ wit! But deil hae Caleb Balderstone,” said he, collecting his powers of inven- tion and resource, “if the family shall los... .... “I hae seen the day, Luckie, when worthy Mr. Cuffcushion and the service-book would 133 Sir Walter Scott hae served your turn (to the elder dame), ... ...eve of his father’s funeral. But they had been heard and registered in the book of fate. Caleb was present at this extraordinary scene, and he could c... ...r, sour, shrewish, and solemn, in her black hood and close pinners, with a book of devotion in her hand; the former, exhibiting beneath a black silk G...

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...istory of the Thirty Y ears’ War Contents History of the Thirty Years’ War Book I. Introduction. — General effects of the Refor- mation. — Revolt of M... ...arm for Frederick. — The Battle of Prague and total subjection of Bohemia. Book II. State of the Empire. — Of Europe. — Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of... ...ns with the Swedes. — Battle of Leipzig. — Conse- quences of that Victory. Book III. Situation of Gustavus Adolphus after the Battle of Leipzig. — Pro... ...h of Gustavus Adolphus. — Situation of Germany after the Battle of Lutzen. Book IV. Closer Alliance between France and Sweden. — Oxenstiern takes the ... ...stein’s death. — His Char- acter. 6 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War Book V. Battle of Nordlingen. — France enters into an Alliance against Aust... ...tion through all the ranks. “It is nothing — fol- low me,” cried the king, collecting his whole strength; but overcome by pain, and nearly fainting, h...

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...this paper; which is, to illustrate the tendency *Spirit of Lawa, vol. i., book ix., chap. i. 40 The Federalist Papers of the Union to repress domest... ...s to execute a legislative power but laws? What is the power of laying and collecting taxes, but a legislative power, or a power of making laws, to la... ..., to wit, that the national legisla- ture, to whom the power of laying and collecting taxes had been previously given, might, in the execution of that... ...rely out of its reach. Or if the combustible materials that now seem to be collecting should be dissipated without coming to maturity, or if a flame s... ...se of the system of each state within that state. The method of laying and collecting this species of taxes in each State can, in all its parts, be ad... ...purposes, or will make use of the State officers and State regulations for collecting the additional imposition. This will best answer the views of re...

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... Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and t... ...lation of intellectual capital.A university cul- ture with its versions of books and articles was giving way to the culture of the newsroom. During th... ...the idea of having a “virtual station”—a station based at headquarters but collecting and operating against a subject much as stations in the field fo... ...itted to attacking the United States. He continued to make himself useful, collecting news articles and helping other al Qaeda members with their out-... ...eratives basic English words and phrases. He showed them how to read phone books,interpret airline timetables,use the Inter- net, use code words in co... ... should get some modest technical help so he could work on U.S. priorities—collecting intelligence on and possibly acting against al Qaeda. But Massou... ...own research, which supposedly included thumbing through a San Diego phone book acquired at a Karachi flea market. Contradicting himself, he also says... ... to buy a ticket to Madrid at the height of the tourist season, Binalshibh booked a seat on a flight to Reus, near Barcelona, the next day .Atta was a... ...ces healthy civilians were found on floors, either because they still were collecting personal items or for no apparent reason; they were told to evac...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity ...

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...R AT HOME “THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically... ...gow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the ra... ... is so staunch a subject, are but a drop in the bucket. And we find in his book a vast virgin ignorance of the life and prospects of America; every vi... ...reat stillness and solitude for the rebellious mind, when in the dearth of books and play, and in the intervals of studying the Shorter Catechism, the... ... succession of men. I looked for my name the other day in last year’s case-book of the Speculative. Naturally enough I looked for it near the *Written... ...ands,” and had been all his days faithful to that curlew-scattering, sheep-collecting life. He remembered the droving days, when the drove roads, that...