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...herwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in Great Britain in 2008 Firecrest Publishing Ltd., 46 Station Road, Stoke Man... ... My soul shall f oat away on the breeze and the Story will be no more.’ A great gasp went up around the circle as they saw there was no glint of hum... ...y still and held his breath so as not to scare it away. Slowly and with a great deal of caution, the Idea f oated around to his ears and made the un... ... were. ‘I’m ready,’ he announced. ‘When do I go?’ The Storyteller heaved a great sigh and called Bozo close to whisper some instructions in his ear. ... ...ghed as she saw what was written. ‘Well, Theo,’ she said. ‘This one smells great but I think it was sent by another crazy. It says: “ Dear Theo, I... ... Omar had driven them north for the rest of the day, through stony desert plains and dramatic red hills. Every now and then, oncoming cars roared by... ... and regain their strength. They took a short trip down the valley to the plains where Raj was now the guest of honour. Draped in marigolds and with...

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...suffoca- tion increases: my lamp goes out with a horrible stench: I make a great effort, and snatch at the bell again. I long for life, and there is n... ...y the weather, and neither know melancholy nor high spirits. I held him in great awe, and appeared more timid and sensitive in his presence than at ot... ...ere and there in an exploratory, auspicious manner—then placed each of his great thumbs on my temples, and pushed me a little way from him, and stared... ...tion were to be remedied. I was very stupid about machines, so I was to be greatly occupied with them; I had no memory for classification, so it was p... ... to me the type of loveliness; and she was without that enthusiasm for the great and good, which, even at the moment of her strongest dominion over me... ...ecame such visions as that I had had of Prague—of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellat...

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...sappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bless it, and the first trainload...

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...oo heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less... ...lling of the contracts in En- gland; the futile correspondences hinting at great wealth of commissions if one, only one, rather doubtful consignment w... ...erted and the later consignments proved, put the fear of God into a man so great that he feared only Parliament and said so till Hitchcock wrought wit... ...ening to slide out sideways. Then the native workmen lost their heads with great shoutings, and Hitchcock’s right arm was broken 8 Rudyard Kipling by... ...t us now. The spurs are holding well on the west bank.” “Mother Gunga eats great allowances. There is always room for more stone on the revetments. I ... ...came from the Government that a Bhil was to repair to a walled city of the plains to give evidence in a law-court, would it be wise to disregard that ... ...d, and of the house in Devonshire; 87 The Day’s Work then, nodding to the plains: “Yes; it’s a big work all of it even my little share. He must have ... ...kept to our hills. Some of our men have taken ponies and bullocks from the plains, and others pots and cloths and ear-rings.” 88 Rudyard Kipling “ Ar... ...arisks, the domes of ruined tombs, and all the smell of the white Northern plains, as the mail-train ran on to the mile-long Sutlej Bridge. William, w...

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...circumstantial waves, they lever their unbalanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the ... ...he situation and even they were paranoid and anxious. The flip-flop policies of the Great Powers turned Macedonia into the focus of shattered nation... ...essure. The Turks switched sides and allied with the Serbs against the spectre of a Great Bulgaria. Again, the battleground was Macedonia and its Bu... ...d resulted in reforms imposed on the Sublime Port (the Turkish authorities) by the Great Powers of the day. We mentioned the peacekeeping force whi... ...l of military expansion), the professional officers (by making them redundant), the Great Powers (by making THEM redundant as well) and the oppositi... ...a", reporting from the Balkan Wars, 1912-3 "When spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosovo with the bones of Serbs, for we, Albanians, hav...

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...s stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Is rael: and they departed from him, and returne... ...he rest. 8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as o... ...prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. Second Kings 4:... ...RD. Chapter 5 N ow Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, be cause by him the LORD had gi... ...d spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he ... ...d the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. 6 So they too...

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...ook an immediate dislike to him, but he interested and amused me. He was a great talker and he talked uncom monly well. In early youth, I was told, h... ...Magician rhyming, and his verse is not entirely without merit. He had been greatly influenced by Swinburne and Robert Brown ing. He was grossly, but ... ...I approve of now, but perhaps not unsuited to the subject; and there are a great many more adverbs and adjectives than I should use today. I fancy I m... ...d when it was published, and I did not bother about it much, for by then a great change had come into my life. The manager of the Court Theatre, one O... ...ved Marga 13 Maugham ret with all his heart, and he was confident in her great affec tion for him. It was impossible that anything should arise to ... ...in des Plantes, my dear Clayson. Have you ever hunted them on their native plains?’ ‘No, I haven’t.’ Clayson did not know why Haddo asked the question...

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...en before the high chief kamehameha conquered the other islands and formed a united kingdom in the first decade of the nineteenth century. This truly great warrior, diplomat and ruler was born in kohala, but was reared, trained and toughened for his mission in ka-u, the southern and most rugged district of hawaii, where his mother, the high chieftainess kekui-a-poiwa, isol...

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...om fear that I might not hear when I was called; and when I went on deck, so great were my ideas of the importance of my trust, that I walked regula... ...we passed at sea was the Sabbath. As we were just from port, and there was a great deal to be done on board, we were kept at work all day, and at nigh... ...enching us completely through. The topsail halyards had been let go, and the great sails were filling out topsoil and backing against the masts with a... ...n to maintain his dignity and to enforce obedience, and still is kept at a great distance from the mate, and obliged to work with the crew. He is on... ...alls. These ‘‘rope yarns’’ are constantly used for various purposes, but the greater part is manufactured into spun yarn. For this purpose every vess... ...arbors; with fine forests in the north; the waters filled with fish, and the plains covered with thousands of herds of cattle; blessed with a climate... ...ries in white before the harbors, and even the smoke from the chimney on the plains of Hingham was seen rising slowly in the morning air. One of our b...

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Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM... ...oon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on th... .................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140 4 Across the Plains whom I take to have been an emigrant agent, was all over the place... ...was dark, the wind blew clean through it from end to end; and here I found a great block of passengers and baggage, hundreds of one and tons of the ot... ...s, screamed steadily and with increasing shrillness, as though 6 Across the Plains verging towards a fit; an official kept her by him, but no one els... ... islands. But Ohio was not at all as I had pictured it. We were now on those great plains which stretch unbroken to the Rocky Mountains. The country w... ...tch widow was a person of some character. She had conceived at first sight a great aversion for the present writer, which she was at no pains to conce... ...through the streets to the station of a different railroad. Chicago seemed a great and gloomy city. I remember having sub- scribed, let us say sixpenc...

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...he most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker, and the fan-light, were all as clean and bright, as indefatigable whit...

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... of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and th... ...um, and a remote village called Somers-town—for the reception of boarders. Great Coram-street was the spot pitched upon. The house had been furnished ... ...w what he was, or where he went; but Mrs. Tibbs used to say with an air of great importance, that he was engaged in the City. The Miss Maplesones and ... ...on, and heating of servants, and curling-irons, as had never been known in Great Coram-street before. Little Mrs. Tibbs was quite in her element, bust... ...s vocation than the most indifferent artist. He was as empty-headed as the great bell of St. Paul’s; always dressed according to the caricatures publi... .... ‘Man,’ replied Horatio, ‘man, whether he ranged the bright, gay, flowery plains of a second Eden, or the more sterile, barren, and I may say, common...

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... miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths o...

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...his basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The... ...lley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateaus of Central Asia, or the might... ...that are navigable by flats and keels. The area of its drainage basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France,... ...co—which brings to mind Captain Marryat’s rude name for the Mississippi—’the Great Sewer.’ This mud, solidified, would make a mass a mile square and t... .... Necessarily, then, these various clusters of whites must have heard of the great river of the far west; and indeed, they did hear of it vaguely,—so ... ...he realm of France received on parchment a stupendous accession. The fertile plains of Texas; the vast Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 13 basi... ...an arrow heads, of flint; pair of bead moccasins, from uncle who crossed the Plains; three ‘alum’ baskets of various colors—being skeleton frame of wi...

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... melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing an... ...had a smaller circle of admirers, has yet been carved and dressed with the greatest care by the artist; the Dobbin Figure, though apparently clumsy, y... ...s in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick M... ... worthy of an establishment which has been honoured by the presence of the great lexicographer, and the patron- age of the admirable Mrs. Chapone. In ... ...t hear of her again from this moment to the end of time, and that when the great filigree iron gates are once closed on her, she and her awful sister ... ...led spoils. And her pleasure was to ride the young colts, and to scour the plains like Camilla. She was the favourite of her father and of the stablem...

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...f admitting him, and feeling it awk- ward to stand beside a grief that was greater than his, he crossed his arms behind him, and took a turn along the... ... straw and the patch swam again and again behind the tremulous medium of a great well- ing tear, and the tear rose and fell and dropped into the river... ... if the speaker had passed her on his walk— 5 Virginia Woolf That the Great House of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. Yes, she knew she m... ...more steadily than she had yet done, her shoulders rising and falling with great regularity. It was this figure that her husband saw when, having reac... ...om the West End, and plunged them into London. It appeared that this was a great manufac- turing place, where the people were engaged in making things... ...ense river and the immense forest, the vast stretches of dry earth and the plains of the sea that encircled the earth; from the sea the sky rose steep...

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... befriend him; nor should it be forgotten that he was afflicted during the greater part of his life with an incurable disease. Lord Byron had a soul n... ...let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a father’s duty to his offspring; bu... ...—sarcasm and ridicule—against poor Jean-Jacques. The quarrels of these two great men cannot be described in this place; but they constitute an importa... ...ital there was cir- culated an ironical letter purporting to come from the Great Frederick, but really written by Horace Walpole. This cruel, clumsy, ... ...y trivial, his business of a watchmaker (in which he had the reputation of great ingenuity) was his only depen- dence. My mother’s circumstances were ... ...mind, ’tis ever to the country of Vaud, near the lake, in those charm- ing plains, that imagination leads me. An orchard on the banks of that lake, an...

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...niversal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closin... ...operty. I bore the name of the Vidame de Chartres; and was edu- cated with great care and attention. My mother, who was remarkable for virtue, perseve... ...d recourse to my fa- ther, whom I made believe that the King, having led a great siege this year, would rest the next. I said nothing of this to my mo... ...le, very different indeed from the truth, for he changed the defeat into a great victory. Having gained this wonderful intelligence, the second courie... ... camp first, and was received with delight. While his Majesty was still in great joy at his happy victory, the other courier arrived with the real det... ...ee it once is to see it always. Ani- mals to shoot are not met with in the plains. They must be sought for among the mountains,—and there the ground i... ...g, the wild boar, and other beasts as we hunt the hare,—and elsewhere. The plains even are so dry, so hard, so full of deep crevices (that are not per...

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... rue Saint-Denis in Paris. And this is where the postal spirit obtains its greatest triumph. An heir is always more or less anxious to know if he has ... ...n did to their chil- dren, justified them to their own minds in taking the greater part of “the old scoundrel’s” property. However, Rogron did send hi... ...en he winked at his questioner with a knowing look. “Hey! hey! they are no greater fools than I was,” he added. “My father gave me three kicks; I shal... ...hey knew absolutely nothing; they were even ignorant of Paris. To them the great city was merely a region spreading around the Rue Saint-Denis. Their ... ...erk; he understood nothing of his business as a whole; self-interest, that great motor of the mind, had failed in his case to instruct him. He was of-... ...o shopkeepers in the muddy regions of Saint-Denis. After crossing the gray plains which lie between La Ferte- Gaucher and Provins, a desert and yet pr...

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... an almost exaggerated tender- ness. He, at least, will become my reader: – if it were only to follow his own travels alongside of mine. R.L.S. ! ... ...nplace, that we cannot answer for ourselves before we have been tried. But it is not so common a reflection, and surely more con- soling, that we usua... ...man with her elbows on her knees, or an old gentleman with a staff and silver spectacles. But Boom and its brickyards grew smokier and shabbier with e... ...ecedents, hailed us from the tow-path with a ‘c’ ses vite, mais c’est long.’ The canal was busy enough. Every now and then we met or overtook a long s... ...o travel and to stay at home. The chimney smokes for dinner as you go along; the banks of the canal slowly unroll their scenery to contemplative eyes;... ...hole mansion, with its dogs and birds and smoking chimneys, so far a traveller as that? and as homely an object among the cliffs and orchards of the S...

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...eading on to Guadalajara, he came upon one of the county watering-tanks, a great, iron-hooped tower of wood, straddling clumsily on its four uprights ... ... his seat under the wagon umbrella, and, as he started his team again with great cracks of his long whip, turned to the painters still at work upon th... ...rrick’s land, division No. I, or, as it was called, the Home ranch, of the great Los Muertos Rancho. The road was better here, the dust laid after the... ...old himself, had only touched the keynote. He strove for the diapason, the great song that should em- brace in itself a whole epoch, a complete era, t... ...ssensions made the one note of harsh colour that refused to enter into the great scheme of harmony. It was material, sordid, deadly com- monplace. But... ...usands of miles distant—a drought on the prairies of Dakota, a rain on the plains of India, a frost on the Russian steppes, a hot wind on the llanos o... ...as to the Himalayas to feed thousands of starving scarecrows on the barren plains of India. Falseness dies; injustice and oppression in the end of eve...

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... a strip of sky; the perspective one way only a crooked prolongation of this great dungeon; the shorter perspective in the other direction terminating... ...ife, and who, being at last set free, had a newly awakened interest in these great works. To such purpose I spoke to him; but I am far from sure of th... ...erate re source, the army; and that he knew it was so, more or less, in any great railway staff. He had been, when young (if I could believe it, sit... ...on. “‘ A bird in the hand,’” said the gentleman, reading his last entry with great solemnity, “‘is worth two in the Bosh.’” “T ruly I am of the same o... ...me, in the early morning; and a haunted house could scarcely ad dress me to greater advantage than then. I walked on into the village, with the deser... ...On the other hand, a young antelope of transcendent beauty from the fruitful plains of Camden Town (whence she had been brought, by traders, in the ha...

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...ion for the Roman empery, Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome: A nobler man, a braver warrior, Lives not this day... ...e his country with his tears, Tears of true joy for his return to Rome. Thou great defender of this Capitol, Stand gracious to the rites that we inten... ...se of every sort, Patricians and plebeians, we create Lord Saturninus Rome’s great emperor, And say ‘Long live our Emperor Saturnine!’ [A long flouris... ...et not discontent Daunt all your hopes: madam, he comforts you Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths. Lavinia, you are not displeased with thi... ...ction. TAMORA: Ah, my sweet Moor, sweeter to me than life! AARON: No more, great empress; Bassianus comes: Be cross with him; and I’ll go fetch thy ... ...TURNINUS: Then go successantly, and plead to him. [Exeunt.] ACT V SCENE I: Plains near Rome. [Enter LUCIUS with an army of Goths, with drum and colo...

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...ork remains to be done about us in the way of education, Heaven knows; but great improvements and facilities towards the attainment of a good one, hav... ...t we talked on all kinds of subjects, except the school, which he showed a great anxiety to avoid. “W as there any large school near?” I asked him, in... ... in a’ Lunnun, or a gootther to lie asleep in!” Repeating these words with great heartiness, and with a solemnity on his jolly face that made it look ... ... words from the original preface to this book. “It has afforded the Author great amusement and satisfac- tion, during the progress of this work, to le... ...ng disposi- tion, gleaned from thence nothing but forewarnings to shun the great world and attach himself to the quiet routine of a country life, Ralp... ...ith the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria, the humble artist had pursued her lonely, but contented wa...

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...- vented for our use. Those who have no knowledge of logic, like some of our great physical philosophers, seem to be quite as good reasoners as those ... ...nd Mill have shed a light far and wide on the realms of knowledge. These two great studies, the one destruc- tive and corrective of error, the other c... ... is at last pacified, and be- comes a friendly and interested auditor of the great dis- course. But in the Euthydemus the mask is never dropped; the a... ...teachers of virtue, is interested in the youth Cleinias, the grandson of the great Alcibiades, andis desirous that he should have the benefit of their... ... their instructions. He is ready to fall down and worship them; although the greatness of their professions does arouse in his mind a temporary in- cr... ...Cleinias may be dis- couraged at these repeated overthrows. He therefore ex- plains to him the nature of the process to which he is be- ing subjected....

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have com...

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...st February 1852. INTRODUCTION Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel... ...s detail a picture of Russia; others, Merejkovsky among them, see in him a great symbolist; the very title Dead Souls is taken to describe the living ... ...y book may be published in a different and a better form would give me the greatest possible pleasure. One thing in particular would I ask of any read... ...erance and preju- dice which is common to all humanity, have proved of the greatest use both to my head and to my heart—I beg of such writers again to... ...oil-painted, trian- gular green supports, and able to boast of a height no greater than that of an ordinary walking-stick. Yet re- cently the local pa... ...s of a type rarely to be met with in Russia, where nearly everything, from plains to human feet, is, rather, on the gigantic scale; these features, I ...

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...os is rent With shaft and pit; foiled waters wander slow Through plains where Simois and Scamander went To war with gods and heroes lo... ...premacy. A.I. Athwart the sunrise of our western day The form of great Achilles, high and clear, Stands forth in arms, wielding the Pe... ...o the Danaans, not even if thou mean Agamemnon, that now avoweth him to be greatest far of the Achaians.” Then was the noble seer of good courage, and... ... wide ruling Agamemnon, sore displeased; and his dark heart within him was greatly filled with anger, and his eyes were like flashing fire. To Kalchas... ...hilles: “Most noble son of Atreus, of all men most covetous, how shall the great hearted Achaians give thee a meed of honour? We know naught of any we... ...r me to sit idle in bereavement, and biddest me give her back? Nay, if the great hearted Achaians will give me a meed suited to my mind, that the reco... ...ey watched through the wicked night, for ever were they turning toward the plains, when they heard the T rojans moving. And that old man was glad when... ... the crests of the high hills, and the uttermost headlands, and the grassy plains, and rich tillage of men; and the snow is scattered over the havens ...

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...s root: Unread, divined; unseen, beheld; The evanescent, ever-present she, Great Nature’s stern necessity In radiance clothed, to softness quelled; Wi... ...ct; erratic but in heart’s excess; Being mortal and ill-matched for Love’s great force; Like green leaves caught with flames by his impress. And pray ... ...nite, The lion-haunted thickets hold apart. In love the ruddy hue declares great heart; High confidence in her whose aid is lent T o lovers lifting th... ... Love’s daintier brute Be snared as hunter, she will tempt pursuit. She is great Nature’s ever intimate In breast, and doth as ready handmaid wait, Un... ...e, since he grew tame. Hence has the Goddess, Nature’s earliest Power, And greatest and most present, with her dower Of the transcendent beauty, gaine... ...tral] A hundred mares, all white! their manes Like mace-reed of the marshy plains Thick-tufted, wavy, free o’ the shears: And when the fiery squadron ...

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...erity (Who does not often claim the bright reversion) Has generally no great crop to spare it, he Being only injured by his own assertion; ... ...hat she did. Her memory was a mine: she knew by heart All Calderon and greater part of Lope, So that if any actor miss’d his part She coul... ... Although her mode of speaking was not pure; For native Spanish she had no great care, At least her conversation was obscure; Her thoughts wer... ...fruit without her leave. He was a mortal of the careless kind, With no great love for learning, or the learn’d, Who chose to go where’er he ha... ...mestic quarrels one will do. Now Donna Inez had, with all her merit, A great opinion of her own good qualities; Neglect, indeed, requires a sa... ...burst forth from her Numidian veins, Even as the Simoom sweeps the blasted plains. The last sight which she saw was Juan’s gore, And he himsel... ...from his beads to join the jocund race; Even Nimrod’s self might leave the plains of Dura, And wear the Melton jacket for a space: If she hath...

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...to give to the world a book such as the present, where the beauties of the great original must inevitably be diminished, if not destroyed, in the proc... ...e second, one word of explanation will suffice for those who have made the greatest poet of Germany, almost of the world, their study, and to whom the... ...dant, the other in that of the transla- tor of his Poems. Believe me, with great truth, Very faithfully yours, Edgar A. Bowring. London, April, 1853. ... ... immeasurably increased when he attempts to transfer the thoughts of those great men, who have lived for all the world and for all ages, from the lang... ...re us, not as a mere individual, like those whom the world is wont to call great, but as a type, as an emblem—the recognised emblem and representative... ... next appear Mills and wheels, the surest token That a level spot is near, Plains far-stretching and unbroken. And so onwards, onwards roam, T o my ga... ... AFTER these vernal rains That we so warmly sought, Dear wife, see how our plains With blessings sweet are fraught! We cast our distant gaze Far in th... ...ness covers, Yet Susan’s image still o’er it hovers.— The water sinks, the plains re-appear. Fair Susan’s lamented with many a tear,— May he who refus... ...heir estate now vanish’d. HE. But the owner surely is not wanting Of these plains, with ev’ry beauty teeming? V erdant fields, broad meads, and pastur...

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...is. The critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was designed to be the second part of a trilogy, which, like the other great Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never completed. Timaeus had brought down the origin of the world to the creation of man, and the dawn of history was now to succeed the philosophy of nature....

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... It was designed to be the second part of a trilogy, which, like the other great Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never co... ...n imposed upon by the fiction. As many attempts have been made to find the great island of Atlantis, as to discover the country of the lost tribes. Wi... ...years ago. One of the combatants was the city of Athens, the other was the great island of Atlantis. Critias proposes to speak of these rival powers f... ...emains of it still is, the most fertile in the world, and abounded in rich plains and pastures. But in the course of ages much of the soil was washed ... ...ended as far as Egypt and Tyrrhenia. Now Atlas had a fair pos- terity, and great treasures derived from mines—among them that precious metal orichalcu... ...ives; there was an altar too, and there were palaces, corresponding to the greatness and glory both of the kingdom and of the temple. Also there were ... ...e of the country, its mountains were high hills covered with soil, and the plains, as they are termed by us, of Phelleus were full of rich earth, and ... ...le island, there was a plain which is said to have been the fairest of all plains and very fertile. Near the plain again, and also in the centre of th... ... and marshes and rivers, and also for those which live in mountains and on plains, so there was for the animal which is the largest and most voracious...

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...d the Statesman and Philosopher , as well as the Sophist. SOCRATES: Does the great geometrician apply the same measure to all three? Are they not divi... ... management of men, and an- other of beasts.’ V ery good, but you are in too great a hurry to get to man. All divisions which are rightly made should ... ...ave probably heard of the fish-preserves in the Nile and in the ponds of the Great King, and of the nurseries of geese and cranes in Thessaly. These s... ...reest of creation, in which they are far behind their competitors;—this is a great joke, and there is a still better in the juxtaposition of the bird-... ...rns. All changes in the heaven affect the animal world, and this be- ing the greatest of them, is most destructive to men and animals. At the beginnin... ...have not travelled in those regions, of nurseries of geese and cranes in the plains of Thessaly? YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly . STRANGER: I asked you, be...

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...ne, Whose voice seem’d faint through long disuse of speech. When him in that great desert I espied, “Have mercy on me!” cried I out aloud, “Spirit! or... ...hall be The land ‘twixt either Feltro. In his might Shall safety to Italia’s plains arise, For whose fair realm, Camilla, virgin pure, Nisus, Euryalus... ...mmortal tribes had entrance, and was there Sensible present. Yet if heaven’s great Lord, Almighty foe to ill, such favour shew’d, In contemplation of ... ... spoken, were ordain’d And ‘stablish’d for the holy place, where sits Who to great Peter’s sacred chair succeeds. He from this journey, in thy song re... ...f my fortune but myself, On the wide desert in his road has met Hindrance so great, that he through fear has turn’d. Now much I dread lest he past hel... ...ere. Then looking farther onwards I beheld A throng upon the shore of a great stream: Whereat I thus: “Sir! grant me now to know Whom here we vie... ...plete with bitter pain and torment ill. As where Rhone stagnates on the plains of Arles, Or as at Pola, near Quarnaro’s gulf, That closes Italy a... ...tstretch’d for flight; Light armed squadrons and fleet foragers Scouring thy plains, Arezzo! have I seen, And clashing tournaments, and tilting jousts... ...iana, and Monte Feltro, a city in the territory of Urbino. v. 103. Italia’s plains.] “ Umile Italia,” from Virgil, Aen lib. iii. 522. Humil...

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...: First, when that only is praised which is solidly worth praise: next, when greatest likelihoods are brought that such things are truly and really in... ...f I should thus far presume upon the meek demeanour of your civil and gentle greatness, Lords and Commons, as what your published Order hath directly ... ..., but in other lands, that cities and signiories heard them gladly, and with great respect, if they had aught in public to admonish the state. Thus di... ...sel: and how far you excel them, be assured, Lords and Commons, there can no greater testimony appear, than when your prudent spirit acknowledges and ... ...rther made both in religious and civil wisdom. I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant e... ...ich once of Meliboeus old I learnt, The soothest shepherd that e’er piped on plains. There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb ...

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...lendor of noble palaces and grim and ancient castles. CHAPTER II NOW CAME GREAT NEWS! Stunning news—joyous news, in fact. It came from a neighboring ... ...per. Man and wife entered into a solemn compact, now, to never mention the great news to any one while the relative lived, lest some ignorant person c... ...came marching home with three hundred percent profit on its back! It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They were speech less for joy. Also spe... ... chance that the market would break—until at last her anxi eties were too great for further endurance—she being new to the margin business and unhard... ...s actually in. On that policy she took her stand, and would not budge. The great secret must be kept, she said—kept from the daughters and everybody e... ...he fair day gave place to gloomy twilight, which lay heavily on the Indian Plains. He remembered an old Indian Castle, that once stood at the foot of ... ...e gold and silver mines of California and Nevada; about the Indians of the plains and deserts of the West, and their cannibalism; about the raising of... ... yesterday, the mountains were left in a ragged condition, and some of the plains were so cluttered with rubbish and remnants that the aspects were qu...

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...me a living German author instead of merely a translated English one is so great that I am bound to point out that he is not respon- sible for my view... ...e perished of despair in my youth but for the world created for me by that great German dy- nasty which began with Bach and will perhaps not end with ... ...s and sweetness. In due time the gold of Klondyke will find its way to the great cities of the world. But the old dilemma will keep con- tinually repr... ...n castles for themselves, or to comprehend divinity. As a god, he is to be great, secure, and mighty; but he is also to be passionless, affectionless,... ...arf has paid for Plutonic power. Wotan has forgotten this in his dreams of greatness. Not so Fricka. What she is thinking of is this price that Wotan ... ... the composition of The Rhine Gold and Night Falls On The Gods; and it ex- plains why he dropped The Ring allegory and fell back on the status quo ant...

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...a-torah ha-zoth, a copy of this law, in Deuteronomy 17:18. The book consists of three sermons or speeches delivered to the Israelites by Moses on the plains of Moab, shortly before they enter the Promised Land. The first sermon recapitulates the forty years of wilderness wanderings which have led to this moment, and ends with an exhortation to observe the law (or teachings...

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...ceased, and I was glad to avail myself of the circumstance of a gang of men being employed there at that time in repairing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of t...

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...en being employed there at that time in repairing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily a... ...ed and fifty saw mills on the Penobscot and its tributaries above Bangor, the greater part of them in this immediate neighborhood, and they sawed two h... ...inward are of the clearest and widest white pine stuff, of which there is a great waste on account of their form, for the bottom is left perfectly fla... ... a moment to see a fish hawk dive for a fish down straight as an arrow, from a great height, but he missed his prey this time. It 4 The Maine Woods was... ... repair, as almost any you will find anywhere. Everywhere we saw signs of the great freshet, — this house standing awry, and that where it was not foun... ...try of nature would anon work up, or work down, into the smiling and verdant plains and valleys of earth. This was an undone extremity of the globe; a... ...re is less of substantial thought and fair understanding in him, than in the plains where men inhabit. His reason is dispersed and shadowy, more thin ... ...lfers him of some of his divine faculty. She does not smile on him as in the plains. She seems to say sternly, why came ye here before your time? This... ...ght to the earth as on a lake, he clears off the forest on the hillsides and plains, and sprinkles fine grass seed, like an enchanter, and so carpets t...

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...is to be settled by a religious doctrine; but the diffi- culties are still greater in this direction. First of all, this in- volves a thorough and jud... ...men of history have been criminals; their lives and teachings have been in greater or lesser conflict with the doctrines, habits and be- liefs of the ... ...ipulate business and property for purely selfish ends? What of many of our great financiers who use every possible reform and conventional catch word ... ...he most servile and obedient to the opinions and life of the crowd are the greatest enemies to change and individuality. The fact is, none of the gene... ...eresting portion of this docu- ment: And the Lord showed me [Peter] a very great country out- 14 side of this world, exceeding bright with light, and... ...n has made of her a milk-machine. T urn all thoroughbred horses out on the plains to shift for them- selves, and they would either die or gradually be... ...ually be modified until they were adapted to the free and wild life of the plains. This would not be so good for man, but would be better for 142 the...

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...ts back to the original in point of impenitence; but in piety he falls off greatly. T rue, he also proposes to repent; but in what terms? “Oui, ma foi... ...m the empress Catherine. Byron was as little of a philosopher as Peter the Great: both were instances of that rare and useful, but unedifying variatio... ...n- temporaries. The resultant unscrupulous freedom of thought made Byron a greater poet than Wordsworth just as it made Peter a greater king than Geor... ...ous superiority of Woman’s natural position in this matter is telling with greater and greater force. As to pulling the Nonconformist Conscience by th... ..., has a dream in which his Mozartian ancestor appears and philosophizes at great length in a Shavio-Socratic dialogue with the lady, the statue, and t... ...f the nerves. The visions of my romantic reveries, in which I had trod the plains of heaven with a deathless, age- less creature of coral and ivory, d...

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...w Home Secre- tary or chief of police without an idea in his head that his great-grandmother might not have had to apologize for, had refused to “reco... ... plagues of which Egypt never dreamed. They were all as preventable as the great Plague of London, and came solely because they had not been prevented... ...e- parture in scientific doctrine which is associated with the name of the great naturalist Charles Darwin began, it was not only a reaction against a... ...every ten minutes. T ravelling must be stopped, or, that being impossible, greatly hindered. All pretences about fine art and culture and the like mus... ... for Lynch law. The climax of legal lawlessness was reached in France. The greatest Socialist statesman in Europe, Jaures, was shot and killed by a ge... ...n said, “not difficult to die,” and enormously difficult to live: that ex- plains why, at bottom, peace is not only better than war, but infinitely mo...