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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...on of child labor. This, until five years ago, was considered a distinctly English problem, with which the citizens of this country had nothing to do ... ...- - - - Mass College Barber Shop First class Work Guaranteed.New hand-made English Razors and Strops. J. V. AZIER Next to Morgan Hall Williamstown Col... ...RSPROOF Mass, College Barber Shop First classWork Guaranteed.New hand-made English Razors and Strops. J. V. AZIER Next to Morgan Hall Williamstown Col... ... dance at Wood's hall. The concert will be held under the patronage of th« Women's Guild of St. Mark's Church. Heretic", published not long since in a... ...preciation from the audience, but the adult per- sonages, particularly the women, possessed very little character, and suffer much by comparison with ... ...asses of garments, those worn by men were called chiton and those worn by -women, peplos. The wife made the garments and they were held in high esteem... ...agination, nourished doubtless by a loving familiarity of the best English poets. While in n degree imitative, the imitation is none the less creditab...

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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. Cove... ...s eloquent to the feelings from being profoundly mysteri- ous, and, in the English church, forced not only upon the attention, but even upon the eye o... ... most thoughtless. 5 Thomas de Quincey According to the discipline of the English church, the un- baptized are buried with “maimed rites,” shorn of t... ...re, if he could maintain a tolerable familiarity with the fore- most Latin poets, and a very slender one indeed with the Grecian. How slender, we can ... ...ns, should have failed so conspicuously; for possibly the mothers had been women of excessive and even exem- plary stupidity. In the case of Shakspear... ...ish and the Gothic races in general; since, under the immunity which their women enjoy from all servile labors of a coarse or out-of- doors order, by ... ... class, however noble in appearance, is somewhat de- graded in the eyes of women, by the necessity which his in- digence imposes of working under a ma... ... power can be looked for there. The Antigone and the Electra of the tragic poets are the two leading female characters that classical antiquity offers... ... whole is for each and in each. They only are real incarnations. The Greek poets could not exhibit any approximations to female character, without vio...

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A Treatise on Government Translated from the Greek of Aristotle

By: William Ellis A. M.

...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...litics mainly a description of a Utopia or ideal state which might inspire poets or philosophers but have little direct effect upon political institut... ..., 1831-70; Didot edition (Greek and Latin), 5 vols. 1848-74. 13 Aristotle ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS: Edited by T. Taylor, with Porphyry’s Introduction, 9 ... ... works: De Anima: T orstrik, 1862; T rendelenburg, 2nd edition, 1877, with English translation, E. W allace, 1882; Biehl, 1884, 1896; with English, R.... ...can be nothing but between slaves of different sexes. For which reason the poets say, it is proper for the Greeks to govern the barbarians, as if a ba... ... and which Socrates endeavoured to establish by his regulations concerning women and children: for we think that friendship is the greatest good which... ...ave arms, and join with the others in war, or not. He thinks also that the women ought to go to war, and have the same education as the soldiers; as t... ...their common tables are to be the same, excepting that in that he says the women should have com- mon tables, and that there should be a thousand men-... ...asion for the virtues of temperance and justice. Thus if there are, as the poets tell us, any inhabitants in the happy isles, to these a higher degree...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...org Title: Chicago Style Manal Author: University of Chicago Language: English Subject: NonFiction, Reference Publisher: World Public Library A... ...PITALIZATION CAPITALIZE- I. Proper nouns and adjectives: George, America, Englishman; Elizabethan, French (see 46). 2. Generic terms forming a par... ...eforma- tion, Inquisition, Commonwealth (Cromwell's), Commune (Paris); Old English (OE-see IIO), Middle High German (MHG), the Age of Elizabeth; Pl... ...ntence in ordinary reading-matter : "Five hundred and ninety-three men, 417 women, and 126 children under eighteen, besides 63 of the crew, went dow... ...in all matter of a statistical character, use figures: "Admission: men, $2; women, $I; children, 25 cents." 88. Time of day, in ordinary reading-mat... ...nster Confession, the Thirty- nine Articles." "Shakspere and other, lesser, poets." "The books which I have read I herewith return" (i. e., I return... ...ith return" (i. e., having read them [all1 I now return them). ''Gossiping, women are happy;" and: "Gossiping women are happy." "Of these four, two ...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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. Cove... ...at the power of reflecting and comparing, we look for something nobler. We English estimate Waterloo, not by its amount of killed and wounded, but as ... ...rst such an apology must wear a very suspicious aspect of paradox. 3. “The English Mail-Coach.”* —This little paper, accord- ing to my original intent... ...ith aristocratic families than any in the kingdom. Many elegant and pretty women there naturally were in these parties; but undoubtedly our two Laxton... ... should have had en- trance! Several people, kind, cordial people, men and women, were scattered over England, that, during their days of in- fancy, w... ...en united in the calamity of orphan- age,—go where they might, these young women drew all eyes upon themselves; and from the audible comparisons somet... ...le. Already, at fifteen, I had made myself familiar with the great English poets. About sixteen, or not long af- ter, my interest in the story of Chat... ...rymen. With this knowl- edge, and this enthusiastic knowledge of the elder poets—of those most remote from easy access—I could not well be a stranger ... ...on occasion of some question arising about poetry in general, or about the poets of the day, that it became diffi- cult to dissemble. For my part, hat...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...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. Cove... ...evolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of men and women of great distinction who were his progenitors; and had witnessed the ... ...ot turned to the advantage of equality. The Cru- sades and the wars of the English decimated the nobles and divided their possessions; the erection of... ...es of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ...ve to many of them.” The emigrants were about 150 in number, including the women and the children. Their object was to plant a colony on the shores of... ...as taken. This feeling pervades the most trifling habits of life; even the women frequently attend public meetings and listen to political harangues a... ...ss progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europe- ans, struck by th...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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. Cove... ...s, would have set them down to some affection of the heart or lungs, while poets would have attributed them to the havoc brought by the search for kno... ...t once, and the red color 9 Balzac returned as he affected the airs of an Englishman, to whom life can offer no new sensation, and disappeared withou... ...Drawing of apparently Sanskrit characters omitted here.] Or, as it runs in English: Possessing me thou shalt possess all things. But thy life is mine,... ... sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never possessed. Your wars and revolutions come up before... ...ast, and strong enough to bring about three days of delirium! Pas- sionate women’s forms should grace that night! I would be borne away to unknown reg... ...ent dinner every day, and the play at frequent intervals, where profligate women swarm, where suppers last on into the next day, and light loves are h... ...young writers who lacked ideas, and au- thors of poetical prose by prosaic poets. At the sight of all these incomplete beings, a simple Saint Simonian... ...ps brought by Aquilina, and began to talk with her. In the eyes of the two poets she soon became trans- formed into some sombre allegory, of I know no...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...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. Cove... ... and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Professor of English at Princeton University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswe... ...m were inaccessible. He mentions all told more than fifty names of men and women whom he consulted for infor- mation, to which number many others shou... ...pon this, that there is nothing of the old man in my conversa- tion.’ Upon women of all classes and ages he exerts without trying a charm the consciou... ...ous and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third down to the cat ... ...ar enough; she should have taken him to Rome.’ He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Li... ...n was peculiarly happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets; adding, with a smile of sportive triumph, ‘Sir, we are a nest of sin... ... afterwards enriched the life of his unhappy companion, and those of other Poets. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that one night in particular, when Sava... ...bean; Mr. Shiels, who we shall hereafter see partly wrote the Lives of the Poets to which the name of Cibber is affixed; Mr. Stewart, son of Mr. Georg...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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. Cove... ...rane of some huge lobster, invisibly manipulated by thirty thousand men or women, of whom each individual occupies a space of six square feet, but has... ...fectioner, where there’s a pretty girl.” Rambling about Paris is, to these poets, a costly luxury. How can they help spending precious minutes be- for... ...less fingers, ah, then! and we say it in the interests of young and pretty women, that woman is lost. She is at the mercy of the first man of her acqu... ...elf that he will ever be understood? We all die unknown—’tis the saying of women and of authors. At half-past eight o’clock one evening, in the rue Pa... ...e the glance avows it. Auguste, poet after the manner of lovers (there are poets who feel, and poets who express; the first are the happiest), Auguste... ...e by society, which makes no inquiry as to what there may be of great men, poets, intrepid 31 Balzac souls, and splendid organizations among these va... ...e with claws, scissors, impudent as a Spanish woman, snarling as a prudish English woman pro- claiming her conjugal rights, coquettish as a great lady... ... husband to eau de Melisse for faintness, sugarplums for the children, and English court-plaster in case of cuts. Jules studied all. He looked attenti...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. ... ...lism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasu... ... Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Inventors strived ... ...The Mongols hunted small animals and—given the chance—stole livestock and women from neighbor tribes on the grassier steppes. The Mongol male was ... ...rial goods. The attackers rarely pursued. The raiders would take young women as wives and young boys as slaves. Older women and the youngest chil... ... tribe‘s aristocratic lineage by killing off their men and marrying their women to his sons and other followers. Taking the name Genghis Khan, h... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle...

...m the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in b...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...d name the organ 14 several inches lower as the path to a man‘s heart. Women ... ...part of the power package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was chided for dating beautiful women ... ...s true from mice to men. Get your power through politics, money, beauty or celebrity and you‘ll get enough sex!‖ —―Generally true, Con. Women ... ...ll is God, tolerate all beliefs as being within the One. This doesn‘t mean that some Hindus will not fight to the death over whether Hindi or Englis... ...neffective method of reducing inferiority feelings. ―Then there was the movement to teach black children Ebonics, the name for black street Englis... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ...y the society in which a person lives. It is based more on what is average behavior, the norm, rather than on what might be ideal behavior. An Englis...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...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. Cove... ...sidents I found none who spoke of their city with affec- tion. The men and women of Boston think that the sun shines nowhere else; and Boston Common i... ...hink, commenced in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13. It was then finished according to the origin... ...ormley, a colored man, in I Street, to whose attention I can recommend any English- man who may chance to want quarters in Washington. He has a hotel ... ...ut of 1500 men, one-half had gone to fight the Southern battles! Among the women of Alexandria seces- sion would have found but few opponents. It was ... ...than his Northern brother; and this difference is quite as strong with the women as with the men. It may therefore be understood that secession would ... ...n historians are acknowledged as great au- thors, and as regards their own poets, will sometimes de- mand your admiration for strains with which you h...

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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

...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. Cove... ... it with my guide. There might be about four hundred men and three hundred women in the meeting. The women hid their faces behind their fans, and the ... ...doubt and uncer- tainty we listen patiently to everyone; we even allow our women to hold forth. Two or three of these are often in- spired at one and ... ..., lost his kingdom in a manner that is hardly to be accounted for. All the English sectarists accepted from William III, and his Parliament the tolera... ... mansiones in domo patris mei (in my Father’s house are many mansions). An Englishman, as one to whom liberty is natural, may go to heaven his own way... ...e world, neither his elo- quence nor his intrigues would draw together ten women in Paris. Were Oliver Cromwell, he who beheaded his sovereign, and se... ...eople differ from them in opinion; in which they too much resemble the bad poets, who used to declare publicly that Boileau spake irreverently of Loui... ...rom all the critiques put together which have been made on those two great poets. I have ventured to translate some passages of the most cel- ebrated ... ... have ventured to translate some passages of the most cel- ebrated English poets, and shall now give you one from Shakspeare. Pardon the blemishes of ...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...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. Cove... ...n the evils of our present order of society. The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or c... ...tands it, in the sense of ownership by the free association of the men and women in a community without those compulsory powers which are necessary to... ...en hitherto in business in Manchester, where he had become acquainted with English Socialism and had in the main adopted its doctrines.[Marx mentions ... ...ish Socialism and had in the main adopted its doctrines.[Marx mentions the English Socialists with praise in “The Poverty of Philosophy” (1847). They,... ...ook place, in which, as the result of the fire of the militia, a number of women and children were burned to death.[Literary Digest, May 2 and May 16,... ...n of its utility would be invaluable. Whoever will observe how many of our poets have been men of private means will realize how much poetic capacity ...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...eflects heavily, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the condition... ...fields of light, as that between verse and prose. The circumstance that the poets then, and the more charming ones, have in a number of instances, with... ...ts dark brown moustache and its expression no more sharply “foreign” to an English view than to have caused it sometimes to be observed of him with a ... ... character. He thought of these fellows, from whom he was so to differ, in English; he used, mentally, the English term to describe his difference, fo... ...erver—should he ever have done her? The Prince’s notion of a recompense to women—similar in this to his notion of an appeal—was more or less to make l... ...had for a moment supposed it. He liked in these days to mark them off, the women to whom he had n’t made love: it represented—and that was what please... ...fferent stage of existence from the time at which he liked to mark off the women to whom he had. Neither, with all this, had Mrs. Assingham herself be...

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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ene and silent art, as painting has been called by one of our first living poets, necessarily appealed to the eye, because it had not the organs for a... ...yet immediately added: “And who is Old Alice? I think you know all the old women in the country.” “To be sure I do, or how could I help the old creatu... ...hey are in hard times? And as to Old Alice, she is the very empress of old women and queen of gossips, so far as legendary lore is concerned. She is b... ... originally?” said the Lord Keeper, in continuation. “No; I am by birth an Englishwoman.” “Yet you seem at- 48 Bride of Lammermoor tached to this cou... ...t been urged more mildly, less abruptly, and softened with the grace which women so well know how to throw into their manner, when they mean to mediat... ..., when old Lady Girnington dies.” “Did you ever hear the expression of the English divine?” said Ravenswood—”’Hell is paved with good intentions,’— as...

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Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

...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. Cove... ... handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their per- sonal appearance than he did, nor coul... ...erate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those o... ...lter- ation, perhaps of improvement. The father and mother were in the old English style, and the young people in the new. Mr and Mrs Musgrove were a ... ... man. Should not this be enough for a sailor, who has had no society among women to make him nice?” He said it, she knew, to be contradicted. His brig... ...rts, and all one’s sacrifices, to make the accommodations on board such as women ought to have. There can be no want of gallantry , Admiral, in rating... ...t age, and gone through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to ...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...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. Copy... ...................................................................... 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING PLACE ....................................................... ...ove to off Pitcairn’s Island; says his simple grace before eating, in good English; and knows that 7 Charles Dickens a pretty little animal on board ... ...n to the company already in the round house, they had admitted three black women and two soldiers’ wives; who, with the husband of one of them, had be... ...the great church, shooting itself into a bright confusion of white capped women and blue bloused men, poultry, vegetables, fruits, flowers, pots, pan... ...untry roads (if you walk about, as much as we do) you will see the peasant women, always neatly and comfort ably dressed, riding home, with the pleas... ...d in these later days (of course) of the Praiser There. No, no, civilised poets have better work to do. As to Nookering Umtargarties, there are no pr...

................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ......................................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING-PLACE.......................................................................................

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...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. Cove... ...st be added, entirely indiffer- ent about his birthplace; but speaking the English language, and having been during the course of his life pretty gene... ...ke the trouble to inquire. He was a Bavarian by birth (his mother being an English lady), and enjoyed along with a dozen other brothers the title of c... ...sau;” the Corporal joking and laugh- ing with all the grown-up people. The women, in spite of Mr. Brock’s age, his red nose, and a certain squint of h... ...al’s: but it was remarked that the greater part of the crowd drew back—the women whispering ominously to them and looking at the Corporal. “I see, lad... ...rate greedy ea- gerness and desire of possession, which makes passions for women often so fierce and unreasonable among very cold and selfish men. His... ...ron nine times, besides extracts from the Latin syntax and the minor Greek poets. Catherine’s pas- sionate embreathings are of the most fashionable or... ...n we have all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...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. Cove... ............................. 170 CHAPTER IX – JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Fami... ...y sheer force of repetition, that view is imposed upon the reader. The two English mas- ters of the style, Macaulay and Carlyle, largely exemplify its... ... irregularity and the too frequent vanity and meanness of his relations to women. Hence, in the eyes of many, my study was a step towards the demonstr... ...on Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a task of un- usual difficulty. I regret to find that Mr. Payne an... ...dramatic author has to paint his beaches with real sand: real live men and women move about the stage; we hear real voices; what is feigned merely put... ...vid medium for all that had to do with social life. Hence, whenever Scotch poets left their laborious imitations of bad English verses, and fell back ... ...hrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustomed to ... ...ream so deep and easy that I will venture to call him the best of humorous poets. He turns about in the midst to utter a noble sentiment or a trenchan...

...MUEL PEPYS .......................................................................................... 170 CHAPTER IX ? JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...n danger of trouble on account of their zeal against popery. They had got an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with ta... ...ber thirteen sitting at one time at his table, who all grew up to be men and women, and married; I was the youngest son, and the young est child but ... ...y of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words rightly. I have heard that he wrote ... ...t we took in a number of passengers for New York, among which were two young women, companions, and a grave, sensible, matron like Quaker woman, with ... ...efore, when she saw a daily growing familiarity between me and the two young women, which they appear’d to encourage, she took me aside, and said: “Yo... ...t become eminent in it, and make his for tune by it, alleging that the best poets must, when they first began to write, make as many faults as he did...

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