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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...s as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day- beams of th... ...n the crowd. It was noon in Chepe. And George de Barnwell was alone. V ol. II. WE HA VE SELECTED the following episodical chapter in prefer- ence to a... ...r author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PALL MALL. THOSE WHO FREQUENT the dismal a... ...on himself, in drinking,, and pious Joe is the greatest toper in the three kingdoms,” Dick Steele said, good-naturedly. “His paper in the Spectator be... ...rchies of ancient time, the Megatheria of history. The sails of their rare ships might be seen in the Egyptian waters; the camels of their caravans mi... ...and drained it with a health to the donors. How strange are the chances of war! But half an hour be- fore he and I were engaged in mortal combat, and ... ...ility, was ready to receive them. “Then you might have a touch at the wine-merchant and purveyor. ‘Where did you get this delicious claret, or pate de...

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...RIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...not? And our whole system is to teach us how we can! ‘The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.’ Are they? ... ...t.’ Are they? I had been led to understand the reverse: that the Christian merchant, for example, pros- pered exceedingly in his affairs; that honesty... ... same mind that was in Benjamin Franklin. 9 Lay Morals LAY MORALS CHAPTER II B UT, I MAY BE TOLD, we teach the ten commandments, where a world of mor... ... from the letter to the spirit. For morals are a per- sonal affair; in the war of righteousness every man fights for his own hand; all the six hundred... ...else? this something which is apart from desire and fear, to which all the kingdoms of the world and the immediate death of the body are alike indiffe... ...again be a pris- oner as he was; he can watch clouds and changing seasons, ships on the river, travellers on the road, and the stars at night; happy p... ...constrained and unnatural attitude of our Society. At present we are not a united body, but a loose gathering of individu- als, whose inherent attract...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief d...

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...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 ... ... 1888 1888 1888 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...of the forest demons, and is inconceivably wicked. He was brought into the world consentaneously with Suoyatar, from whose spittle, as sung in The Kal... ...th of the white swan when dying, but all in vain; then he journeyed to the kingdom of T uoni, and failing there, he “struggled over the points of need... ... at that time did not belong to Russia, he invited these itinerant Finnish merchants to his bedside, and induced them to sing their heroic poems, whic... ... themselves into other shapes and resume again their native forms at will; ships, and trees, and waters, have magic powers; in short, all nature speak... ... witch songs date from a time when the Hungarians and the Finns were still united as one people; in other words, to a time at least 3000 years ago. Th... ...m his mother, Ilmatar, the Ether’s daughter. 38 The Kalevala R R R R RUNE II UNE II UNE II UNE II UNE II W W W W WAINAMOINEN’S SO AINAMOINEN’S SO AIN... ...m, That the one may hear the other, That the one may judge the other, In a war of wizard sayings.” 49 The Kalevala Wainamoinen, wise and ancient, Thu...

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...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

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