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...s in May 1453 the Sultan Mahomed II, succeeded to conquer the fortress of Constantinople after few weeks of besiege, generating the fall of the great Byzantine Empire, another important administrative and military structure of the world’s history. This resounding success, made the Sultan to fully hope to the conquest of Europe, thinking the way to the heart of Old Continen...

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... federation - were mortified to find themselves in a Serb-dominated "Third World", Byzantine polity. This was especially galling to the Croats ... ... overturned heroic monuments. The distribution of subversive (and fairly bromide) "literature" was rarely accompanied by acts of terror, either in ... ...ed themselves to be the proper heirs of their former masters: murderous, suborned, Byzantine and nearsighted. In an effort to justify their mis... ...rtyrdom." Mateja Matejic and Dragan Milivojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1978 Any effo... ...b and Bulgarian churches collaborated with the rulers of the day against perceived Byzantine (Greek and Russian) political encroachment in religiou... ...ewess. Southern Orthodox Christianity (as opposed to the virulent and vituperative Byzantine species) has always been pragmatic. The minorities ... ...he debate and supported the Greek position. Sects such as the Hesychasts were more Byzantine than the Greeks and denounced wavering Orthodox clergy... ... of individuals or rebellious groups. Sadness was expressed in liturgy, in art and literature, in music and in dance. Acceptance by conceiving of t... ... has hitherto been largely ignored? How come there is such a dearth of research and literature regarding this crucial family of pathologies? Even me...

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...uty, regular sex, or because this is the first person they have found who is interested in a relationship? Do they research the psychological litera... ...h Africa, establishing a number of military posts. By 698, following several more military campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs had driven the Byzant... ...ecome masters of the provinces of North Africa. ―Though the 11 th Century the Muslim rulers fostered an advanced level of sciences, litera... ... fuzzy idea of what human love is. This idea usually relates to some romantic notion developed from an exposure to the fantasies of fiction in litera... ...s. ―Although China‘s invasion of Tibet in 1951 resulted in the loss of a million Tibetan lives and the destruction of much of its art, litera... ...otential genius. That‘s why we, like Venezuela, allow those as young as 2 to experience the paths toward humanness. Music, the arts, science, litera...

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...u are developing your culture, you want a flourishing economy—and not just in literature or film. You want innovation and invention. You want drugs that... ...very hard to exclude people from Madame Bovary. Imagine a Napster for French literature; everyone could have Madame Bovary and only the first purchaser... ...t to read the actual book?” I smiled at the assumption that all the works of literature were not merely in the Library of Congress, but actually on th... ...out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assimilation of literature to private enterprise.” 49 This is the flip side of the argumen... ... the rich and powerful. 54 Macaulay worried about the effects of monopoly on literature and culture. All of them worried about the effects of copyrigh... ...is seems quite sensible,” people often say, as though they had expected both Byzantine complexity and manifest irrationality. (Perhaps they have had s... ...ritics.org/archives/2005/12/17/032826.php: But it was the staggering, nearly byzantine ambition that encompassed Charles’ mu- sical mind which is the ...

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...level of human corruption most Soap Operas mimic. This is precisely what most literature and fiction is obsessed with, and tries to explore… the sec... ...threatening the old established ways. There was too much of a renaissance in literature, music, dancing, art, philosophy, politics, science, etc. G... ...affickers. Where did American colonists come from? England. Read English literature and history. Read the truth about their vaunted parliament... ...uman settlements on the reflective surface of a river? Two classic pieces of literature. Two different cultures. Two different times. Two differ... ... myth comes from a supposed Bishop called Nicholas: in the 4 th century AD in Byzantine THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six B: Civilization The Eff... ...sbrown.homestead.com/files/xeno.ovid1.htm Ovid's influence on Western art and literature cannot be exaggerated. The Metamorphoses is our best class...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...tyle, but extremely similar in its mode of architecture to what we know of Byzantine structures. But there has been no surface on the rock side large ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ous or historical reasons, their prevalent art and the clipped and limited literature that satisfied their souls? That age which bore me was indeed a ... ...ressed our boyhood, by much indulgence in blasphemous wit. We had a secret literature of irreverent rhymes, and a secret art of theological caricature... ...ject modestly as a manuscript magazine of satirical, liberal and brilliant literature by which in some rather inex- plicable way the vague tumult of i... ...ystem with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and biological science, education and so... ...aotic forces. “There is no clear right in the world any more. The world is Byzantine. The justest man to-day must practise a tainted goodness.” These ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... But how to define the forbidden? He began to compose an address on Modern Literature (so-called). It became acrimonious. Before dawn the birds began ... ...ssail, and meanwhile the demand that action should be taken increased. The literature of church history and the controversies aris- ing out of doctrin... ...e sceptical spirits who find all too abundant expression in our periodical literature. The writer boldly charged the “Chris- tian churches” with absol... ...propositions…. Prayers and litanies com- 52 The Soul of a Bishop posed in Byzantine and mediaeval times…. the want of ac- tuality, the curious sillin...

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..., Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical wo... ...n with gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of Mark Twain 10 mysterious and uncanny creatures. At the time I am writing of, I had been reading so much o... ... of a foreign language, or a few beggarly little three-word phrases, filched from the back of the Dictionary, and these are continually peppering into... ...ad could not have been better built if Napoleon the First had built it. He seems to have been the introducer of the sort of roads which Europe now use... ... a marvel, it is a miracle. Some of the effects are very daring, approaching even to the boldest flights of the rococo, the sirocco, and Mark Twain 2... ...tian Bad and Titian Good I WONDER WHY SOME things are? For instance, Art is allowed as much indecent license today as in earlier times—but the privile...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make ... ...d with quaint figures, which have not lost a nose or a finger. An angular, Byzantine-looking Christ sits in a diamond-shaped frame at the summit of th... ... like an unrolled blue ribbon. I tried to think of the amant de Laure, for literature’s sake; but I had no great success, and the most I could, do was...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... if she inclined to an indulgence verily Byzan- tine. If one could only be Byzantine!—wasn’t that what she insidiously led one on to sigh? Milly tried... ...tried to oblige her—for it really placed Susan herself so handsomely to be Byzantine now. The great ladies of that race—it would be somewhere in Gibbo... ...nished void of their sitting-room, where, a little, re- ally, like a caged Byzantine, she had been pacing through the queer long-drawn almost sinister...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... place by the side of those who fight for a liberal civilisation against a Byzantine imperialism. 43 H G Wells As I came out of the brightly lit Gall... ...o the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American papers discu... ... A certain section of what is called the Socialist press and the Socialist literature in Europe is no doubt great-minded; it seeks to carve a better w... ...objectors with anything but con- tempt. Into my house there pours a dismal literature rehears- ing the hardships of these men who set themselves up to... ...iner exercise for his exceptional quality. He pursued art or philosophy or literature upon their more esoteric lev- els, and realised more and more th...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...t our friend Lucien lives with La T orpille—” “What an irreparable loss to literature, science, art, and politics!” exclaimed Blondet. “La Torpille is... ...sed in men who still have a heart while occupied with politics or science, literature or art. There is not in Paris another woman who can say to the b... ...d of light or air, have been hewn out of that beautiful structure in which Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque—the three phases of ancient art—were harm... ...the like. The first two archways on that side of the yard, facing the fine Byzantine corridor—the only vestige now of Saint-Louis’ elegant palace—form... ..., known as Argot, or thieves’ cant, which has of late been introduced into literature with so much success that more than one word of that strange lin...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...is imagination. It was called the Hall of the Thou- sand Columns. It was a Byzantine cistern, which the popular fancy had endowed with fantastic vastn... ...s mar- riage; and he hated the attitude the head adopted towards classical literature. There was no doubt that he was a fine scholar, and he was engag... ...te in the right tradition: he was writing a treatise on the trees in Latin literature; but he talked of it flippantly , as though it were a pastime of... ...his future eminence. In course of time he became an au- thority on art and literature. He came under the influence of Newman’s Apologia; the pictur- e... ...l. Hayward had one gift which was very precious. He had a real feeling for literature, and he could impart his own passion with an admirable flu- ency... ... Athelny for some fantastic reason took it into his head to discourse upon Byzantine history; he had been reading the later volumes of the Decline and...

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...he rigid, slim figure. Lisbeth, like a Virgin by Cranach or Van Eyck, or a Byzantine Madonna stepped out of its frame, had all the stiffness, the prec... ...ving masterpiece is perfected which in sculp- ture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to eve...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...m of Dandamis and Calanus. While Philip went on his expedition against the Byzantines, he left Alexander, then sixteen years old, his lieutenant in Ma... ... were extremely indignant, and repented hav- ing ever sent any help to the Byzantines, Phocion rose and 311 Plutarch’s Lives told them they ought not... ...ow-student in the Academy, Leon, a man of high renown for virtue among the Byzantines, having vouched for Phocion to the city, they opened their gates... ...d at for his bold- ness in speaking? Or, how could it be, when Python, the Byzantine, “with so much confidence and such a torrent of words inveighed a... ... chased the Macedonians out of the island. The next, was the relief of the Byzantines and 485 Plutarch’s Lives Perinthians, whom the Macedonians at t...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...me. When the treaty was sworn to on both sides Alcibiades went against the Byzantines, who had revolted from the Athenians, and drew a line of circumv... ...iolence, coming on with much fury, and with great shouts and outcries. The Byzantines, thus surprised and astonished, while they all hurried to the de... ...urvived of the enemy, pris- oners of war. After the battle, not one of the Byzantines was slain, or driven out of the city, according to the terms upo... ...hamed of the ac- tion; for he urged that he was not a Lacedaemonian, but a Byzantine and saw not Sparta, but Byzantium, in extreme danger; the city so... ... and Boeotians, who were in garrison, devouring the old stores, whilst the Byzantines, with their wives and children, were starving; that he had not, ... ...they but with much pleasure see the youth receive so wel- comely the Greek literature, and frequent the company of learned men. But Cato, on the other... ...ould certainly be destroyed when they began once to be infected with Greek literature; though time indeed has shown the vanity of this his prophecy; a... ...ecited before them. For Hyrodes was not ignorant of the Greek language and literature, and Artavasdes was so expert in it, that he wrote tragedies and...

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...rt of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ned analysis of this or that among the questions I discuss, and there is a literature so enormous in the aggregate that only a specialist scholar coul... ...ld hope to know it. I have not been unmindful of these professors and this literature; I have taken such opportunities as I have found, to test my pro... ...ut it needs erudition and ac- 6 First and Last Things cumulated and alien literature to make metaphysics obscure, and some of the most fruitful and a... .... It happens that in my younger days I found a character in the history of literature who had a singular and extraordinary charm for me, of whom the t... ...and authoritative forms of Catho- lic teaching which have erected that new Byzantine-looking cathedral in Westminster, or Whitfield’s Tabernacle in th...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...d, they grew less amenable to disci- pline; and as in the last days of the Byzantine Empire, every- one wished to be emperor. They mistook their unifo... ...ssons in taste and elegance. Their voices, which once laid down the law to literature, that living expression of a time, now counted absolutely for no... ...living expression of a time, now counted absolutely for nought. Now when a literature lacks a general system, it fails to shape a body for itself, and... ...ntry yields mighty little gold to the crucible when washed in the ashes of literature or philosophy. In every rank of society (some few Parisian salon... ...ting-women, and took down their slanders, our epoch would have appeared in literature as a well-con- ducted age. I am justifying the century and not i...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... him in much more than his encyclopaedia. Miss Branch had her standards in literature …. The apartment to which Mr. Lansing admitted her was a good de... ...her, and try to look out for a job that will pay. To indulge in my kind of literature one must first have an as- sured income.” He was instantly annoy... ...o had promised to explain to us the differ- ence between the Sassanian and Byzantine motives in Carolingian art; but the Manager has sent up word that... ... was to have enlightened the party on the difference between Sassanian and Byzantine ornament. Lansing, also aloof, had picked out a post from which h...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...retto. She went along with them in the researches for Greek in- scription, Byzantine carving, or Frank fortress; she shared the exultation of decipher... ...blish The Crusaders, take a lodging in London, and there busy himself with literature while awaiting the fulfilment of a promise of further diplo- mat... ...e language.’ ‘There is so much that is beautiful and untranslatable in its literature, that I am sure it would recompense you.’ ‘I do not like the Ger... ...t of occupation, and thus the sense of her loss was ever renewed. Science, literature, and accomplish- ments had been her pursuits, chiefly because he... ...more articles to benighted editors on their last legs. I can finish off my Byzantine his- tory, and coin it into bezants.’ ‘ And these were your hard-... ... either nursing Arthur, play- ing with the children, or bringing sheets of Byzantine his- tory for revision; and he was much slower in looking over Th... ...artsease ‘That is what you have been doing for some time.’ ‘No such thing. Literature was my holiday friend at first; and if she put a gold piece or t...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...old arches of the Odeon, he lingered before the charming open-air array of literature classic and casual. He found the effect of tone and tint, in the... ...th introducing her little charges to a work that was one of the glories of literature. The glory was happily unobjectionable, and the little charges w... ... flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault. It was just now, as happened, that for so fine a sense as ... ...ome’s parlours (oh Mrs. Newsome’s phases and his own!) a course of English Literature re-enforced by ex- ams and teas—and once more, finally, as very ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III: INFANT LITERATURE ................................................................... ...ring together into volumes their own scattered contributions to periodical literature. Upon that suggestion, they suppose me suddenly to have remember... ...ich regulated literary property, and especially the property in periodical literature. But a far greater diffi- culty lay in the labor (absolutely ins... ...of impassioned prose ranging under no precedents that I am aware of in any literature, it is much more difficult to speak justly, whether in a hostile... ...thought, there can be none under such a ritual, which tends violently to a Byzantine, or even to a Chinese result of freezing, as it were, all natural... ...nal cultivators of the Roman language—and which, at another period, in the Byzantine court, operated to preserve the purity of the mother idiom within...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...alace. This place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a ...

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...r who was more proud of his not-very-important social standing than of his literature. In fact he was one of those English snobs of the old order, liv... ...bases for his opinion. “Yes—interesting. Very interesting. Rather like the Byzantines—lingering on into far other ages. Anna Comnena always charmed me...

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...s part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make ... ...r to Louis XIII of France, from his desire to devote himself exclusively to literature. He pub lished his Life of Aesop, Anno Domini 1632. The later... ...nudes, a monk of Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part o... ...forgotten; and it is at the commencement of the fourteenth century, when the Byzantine emperors were the great patrons of learning, and amidst the spl... ...uction, however, of these Fables of Aesop to their high place in the general literature of Christendom, is to be looked for in the West rather than in... ...owever, towards a re introduc tion of the Fables of Aesop to a place in the literature of the world, was made in the early part of the seventeenth ce... ...n, and Christian. They are, at the present time, not only engrafted into the literature of the civilized world, but are familiar as household words in...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ulations of summer lakes, the sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne? The Byzantine court, which, merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that... ...llied in spirit to the barbaresque in taste. In reality, some parts of the Byzantine court ritual were arranged in the same spirit as that of China or... ...sated this disadvantage by much more of natural and Demosthenic fervor. In literature, the merits of Cæsar are familiar to most read- ers. Under the m... ... mother tongue. Both were aware of the transcendent quality of the Grecian literature; but that splendor did not depress their hopes of raising their ... ...rom the suffrages already expressed in books, and scattered throughout the literature of all nations, the scale would be found to have turned prodigio... ... the beautiful, is not once alluded to through the whole course of ancient literature, nor would it have been intelligible to any ancient critic; so t... ...same breeding, finally re-estab- lished itself with undisputed sway in the Byzantine court. Meantime the institutions of Dioclesian, if they had de- s...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...of flaying them alive. One such case had been previously recorded in human literature, and illustrated by a plate. It occurs in a Dutch voyage to the ... ... most industrious benefactor to the early stages of our English historical literature, Thomas Hearne. Three hundred guineas, I believe, had been the p... ...r the old form of expression, you might regard as the trained bands of our literature—the fund from which ultimately, or in the last resort, students ... ... last resort, students look for the materials of our vast and myriad-faced literature. A French author of eminence, fifty years back, having occasion ... ...r: GREECE, in the largest extent of that term, having once belonged to the Byzantine empire, is included, by the mis- conception of hasty readers, in ... ...lves not less of the decrepitude which had by that time begun to palsy the Byzantine sceptre, than of the martial and religious fanaticism which disti...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...omain which this extraordinary act of Ptolemy sud- denly threw open to the literature and spiritual revelation of a little obscure race, nestling in a... ...ing), when the first act of communication took place between the sealed-up literature of Palestine and the Greek catholic interpretation. Altogether, ... ...eration to the vast and potent ideas that brooded over this awful He- brew literature. T oo little weight has been allowed to the prob- able contagiou... ...est to the commencement of what Mr. Finlay, in a peculiar sense, calls the Byzantine empire. These incidents have nowhere been systematically or conti... ...s of power from all further concurrence or coalition with the views of the Byzantine Caesar. Constantinople was from that date thrown back more upon i... ...r. This new and final state of the eastern Rome Mr. Finlay denominates the Byzantine em- pire. Possibly this use of the term may be capable of justifi... ...ght it of importance to notice. And for the present we shall take the word Byzantine in its most ordi- nary acceptation, as denoting the local empire ... ...n of Christianity. But that was neither splendid nor distinct. Whereas the Byzantine Rome built avowedly upon Christianity as its own basis, and conse...

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...TUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVER SITY HA VE JOINED THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 TO A PO... ... STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY HA VE JOINED THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE WHERE, where but here have pride and Truth, That long to give th... ... QUEEN MAEVE A certain poet in outlandish clothes Gathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane, Talked of his country and its people, sang To some stringed... ...e spring gave The heart need suffer no defeat; but I Who have accepted the Byzantine faith, That seems unnatural to Arabian minds, Think when I choose...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...h reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attain- able self. All literature writes the character of the wise man. Books, monuments, pictures... ...t they did. We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric poems, drama, and philoso- phy; a very comple... ...s have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons speak simply,— speak as persons who have gr... ...nd very seldom?” The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature,—in all fable as well as in all history. He finds that the poet ... ... dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble. I know that this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque ...

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...s part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make ... ...e and knowledge of life, as well as of morals or religion. All languages and literatures are full of general ob servations on life, both as to what i... ...ration of what is called civilization, and of the marvels of modern science, literature, and philosophy, and while greatly overrating the amount of un... ...nd there would be no reason why civiliza tion should not die out, as in the Byzantine Em pire. Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are al ways ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... press to that dummy?” “Because it sat for days and days in the robes of a Byzantine Empress to a painter… I wonder where he discovered these priceles... ...suffer a model inside his house. That’s why the ‘Girl in the Hat’ and the ‘Byzantine Empress’ have that family air, though neither of them is really a... ...f length, unframed. They put her on a chair for my mother to look at. The ‘Byzantine Empress’ was already there, hung on 21 Joseph Conrad the end wal... ...ck, you know. This is the true origin of the ‘Girl in the Hat’ and of the ‘Byzantine Empress’ which excited my dear mother so much; of the mysterious ... ...ses of dark oak lurked the shy dummy which had worn the stiff robes of the Byzantine Empress and the amazing hat of the “Girl,” rakishly. I wondered w... ...t has a literary column. But some other papers that didn’t care a cent for literature rehashed the mere fact. And that’s the sort of fact that impress...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ve turned to many a time: for to Agnes I had read all the great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the h... ... understand that no such practice then existed; cer- tainly not in Spanish literature. Her memoirs are electrifying by their facts; else, in the manne... ...ussian Emperor, either it is built upon some confusion between him and the Byzantine Caesars, as though the former, being of the same religion with th... ...s painful, as embodying and recording that Vandal alienation from science, literature, and all their interests, which has ever marked our too haughty ... ...d wait.’ Something analogous to this one may see in the distribu- tions of literature and science. Many popularize and diffuse: some reap and gather o...

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...s part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make ... ... Prophet answered to the Hag Of Endor; and the Spartan Monarch drew From the Byzantine maid’s unsleeping spirit An answer and his destiny – he slew Th...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics which have come down t... ...t it remains true that Hesiod’s distinctive title to a high place in Greek literature lies in the very fact of his freedom form classic form, and his ... ...e nymphs who sing the story of his birth. This, beyond most works of Greek literature, is remarkable for its fresh and spontaneous love of wild natura... ...em is in a chaotic condition, and there are many in- terpolations, some of Byzantine date. Though popularly ascribed to Homer, its real author is said... ... edition). On the Hesiodic poems generally the ordinary Histories of Greek Literature may be consulted, but especially the Hist. de la Litterature Gre...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...Phee liked that pamphlet enormously, for it was com- posed in the Bouverie-Byzantine style, with baroque and ro- coco embellishments; and afterwards h...

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...s part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to mak... ...e, far more than to any kind of literary composition, and to some species of literature far more than to others. Nor does the dialogue appear to be a ... ... no more.’ Plato has seized by anticipation the spirit which hung over Greek literature for a thousand years afterwards. Y et doubtless there were som... ...Socrates, in defiance of the received notions of society and the sentimental literature of the day , alone against all the writers and read ers of no... ...ermedi ate sentimentalism, which has exercised so great an influence on the literature of modern Europe, had no place in the classical times of Hella... ...a thousand years in vent nothing better than Sibylline books, Orphic poems, Byzantine imitations of classical histo ries, Christian reproductions of...

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...s part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make ... ...gs. Most have been preserved in the Anthology of John of Stobi (Stobaeus), a Byzantine collector, of whom scarcely anything is known but that he proba...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ill there still be a sufficient spur to progress to prevent a condition of Byzantine immobility? In considering this question we are, in a certain sen... ... it? And apart from such political difficulties we should have, as regards literature, that very censorship by eminent officials which we agreed to re... ...neral. The difficulty is serious, and a way of meeting it must be found if literature is to remain free. Kropotkin, who believes that manual and intel...

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...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 new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of he...

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.... 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 pr... ...and their allies. Linguistic investigations, poetry, and other branches of literature, also made their appearance soon after or simultaneously with th... ...racci, Prideaux, and others, in recent days, one of whom has found, in the Byzantine “Maometis,” the number of the Beast (Rev. xii)! It is nearer to t...