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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKE... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Mak... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ere and there in the volume in which my father describes his adventures in Europe, I can well under- stand the extreme devotion with which she regarde... ... but what company was there in which he would not be first? When I went to Europe for my education, and we passed a winter at London with my half-brot... ...pass over as odious and unworthy of credit those reports (which I heard in Europe and was then too young to understand), how this person, having left ... ...ndon together; and of a Monday morning, the 11th of Oc- tober, in the year 1700, they set forwards towards London on horseback. The day before being S... ...ation. His Grace took the oaths and his seat in the Scottish parliament in 1700: was famous there for his patriotism and eloquence, es- pecially in th...

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...nslation 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 description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poem may be t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford , the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ncient people. It is claimed, too, that they began earlier than any other European nation to collect and preserve their ancient folk lore. Tacitus, ... ...e alloy used being not now known. The prehistoric races 7 The Kalevala of Europe were acquainted with bronze implements. It may be interesting to not... ...ayce have but very recently awak ened great interest in this question, in Europe especially, by the reading of papers before the British Philological... ...hop, and a highly gifted scholar. In a dissertation, published as early as 1700, entitled, Aboa vetus et nova, he discussed the origin and nature of t... ...e charm), and The Proverbs of the Suomi People, the latter containing over 1700 proverbs, adages, gnomic sen tences, and songs. His example was follo...

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...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; 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,...

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...the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen wh... ...great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...means they died at the rate of ten or fifteen thousand a week, whereas the Europeans or Christian mer- chants, who kept themselves retired and reserve... ...e of the bills of mortality, I believe there did not die less than 1500 or 1700 a day, one day with another. One of the worst days we had in the whole... ...As to foreign trade, there needs little to be said. The trading nations of Europe were all afraid of us; no port of France, or Holland, or Spain, or I...