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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...ieties have ever attempted this. A few small religious groups, such as in monasteries and convents, have done it,. —―It‘s strange that only a ... ...est hours within OECD economies along with Slovakia with 1,978 hours and Greece with 1,934. ―Ireland provides a good example of the changing ... ...houses with one story next to the street, then multiple stories behind. In Greece houses were not taxed, or were taxed minimally, until they were fin...

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.................................................................................................................................. 160 THE REVOLUTION OF GREECE. ....................................................................................................................... 194 MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. II. ..........................................................

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...IDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON, 103 -- BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT?LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO -- LOVE OF MAN, 125 -- BOOK NINTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE, 144 -- BOOK TENTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE (continued), 161 -- BOOK ELEVENTH FRANCE (concluded), 178 -- BOOK...

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...idence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book Seventh Residence in London, 105 -- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence in France, 150 -- Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution, 176 -- Book Eleventh Imagination, How Im...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

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....?ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S OPTICS ......................................................................................... 62 LETTER XVII.?ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S CHRONOLOGY............. 65 LETTER XVIII.?ON TRAGEDY ............................................................................................................................ 71 LETTER XI...

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.... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN. A.D. ...

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...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE LOVE OF BOOKS THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD DE BURY TRANSLAT... ...ngo ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ... hand, let us recall from past experience how much it has profited the whole Christian commonwealth, not in deed to enervate students with the deligh... ...y souls might be joyfully fed These men were the stoutest champi ons of the Christian army, who defended our weakness by their most valiant arms; the... ...earer than light that ye ought to be zealous lovers of books above all other Christians. Ye are commanded to sow upon all waters, because the Most Hig... ...ity of the older Athens, which preceded by nine thousand years the Athens of Greece; the charms of the Chaldaeans; the observations of the Arabs and I... ...s, gladsome alike to our eye and heart. Then the aumbries of the most famous monasteries were thrown open, cases were unlocked and caskets were undone... ... Egyptians, the Chaldaeans, the Persians and the Medes, all of which learned Greece had transferred into her treasuries. Whose true sayings he re cei...

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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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...ert Naunton A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul Hentzner, and Fragme... ...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. Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul ... ...originally founded, as all historians agree, by Brutus, who, com- ing from Greece into Italy, thence into Africa, next into France, and last into Brit... ...eir rich endowments, and copious libraries, excel all the academies in the Christian world. We shall add a little of the academies themselves, and tho... ...ic II. of Denmark, &c.; of Casimir, Count Palatine of the Rhine; and other Christian princes who have been chosen into this Order. In the back choir, ... ... town, and, without doubt, of note in the time of the Romans. Here are two monasteries almost contiguous, namely of Christ and St. Augustine, both of ... ...hat his custom of swearing and obscenity in speaking made him seem a worse Christian than he was, and a better knight of her carpet than he could be. ...

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...ached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the other hand a large proportion of the contents have been specially translated f...

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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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