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...inibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...anicus, with a fine rhetorical inspiration, “Forward! and follow the Roman birds.” It would be a very heavy spirit that did not give a leap at such a ... ...rosperous humanitarians tell me, in my club smoking- room, that they are a prey to prodigious heroic feelings, and that it costs them more nobility of... ...ure; and there is all the world between gaping wonderment at the jargon of birds, and the emotion with which a man listens to articulate music. At the... ...ome disqui- eted about the bringing up of children. Surely they dwell in a mythological epoch, and are not the contemporaries of their parents. What c... ...wn you sit to smoke a pipe in the shade. You sink into your- self, and the birds come round and look at you; and your smoke dissipates upon the aftern... ...the agonies, how surprised they would be if they could hear their attitude mythologically expressed, and knew themselves as tooth- chattering ones, wh...

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...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most intere...

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...ation The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...and every load that was overthrown in the river was regarded as the lawful prey of the noble on whose banks the catastrophe befell. Any freight of goo... ...dance, and keeping numerous rural or religious feasts, where old T eutonic mythological observances had received a Christian colouring and adaptation.... ..., whose mind had been much impressed by the Minnesinger’s be- quest to the birds. “Nor like any true Christian knight. Alas, my poor boys, must you be... ...is not hard after the first” said Friedel. “I only waited to watch the old birds out again.” “Robbed the eagles! And the young ones?” “Well,” said Fri... ...es of wonderful costli- ness of material and beauty of workmanship; little birds, with thin cakes fastened to their feet, were let loose to fly about ... ...ush to keep up with the attractive part of the show. Pageants of elaborate mythological character impeded the imperial progress at every stage, and it...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

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...rans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... tor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...by oilcloth with a trayful of glasses (the glasses looking like a flock of birds roosting by the seashore), and a selection of oil paintings. In short... ...e room was hung with old striped curtains, and ornamented with pictures of birds and small, antique mirrors—the latter set in dark frames which were c... ...d the room, and perceived that not all the pictures were representative of birds, since among them hung also a portrait of Kutuzov* and an oil paintin... ...d to be hovering between her lips like hawks preparing to stoop upon their prey. Only a person of the 181 Gogol unhumanity of a “true friend” would h... ...shing us on a business footing than because I de- sire to win your favour. Prey, therefore, accept this ear- nest money of three thousand roubles.” An... ...oks on the Arts. Extracting a huge tome in which some by no means reticent mythological illustrations were contained, he set himself to examine these ...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men a...

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... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Thr... ... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere], the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA... ....” And that was all. Whilst, however, the horses were climbing the steep ac- clivity which leads from the river to the castle, several shop- boys appr... ...nd Monsieur made his solemn entry into the castle. When he had disappeared under the shades of the porch, three or four idlers, who had followed the c... ...eir service for the day was over, laid themselves down very comfortably in the sun upon some stone benches; the grooms disappeared with their horses i... ...urn home presently, and shall ex- pect you as soon as your duty permits.” Raoul bowed, and, at that moment, M. le Prince came up to them. The prince h... ...ve and the king left the apartment. Athos, by a sign made to Bragelonne, renewed the desire he had expressed at the beginning of the scene. By degrees... ....” “I was trying,” said the marquise, raising her beautiful eyes brightened with an indication of growing temper, “I was trying to discover to what yo...

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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depend...

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...ns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ....................................................... 38 THE DIVINATION BY BIRDS (fragments) ............................................................ ...f the poet needed a lay-figure the ordinary practice was to introduce some mythological person — as, in fact, is done in the “Precepts of Chiron.” In ... ...the scantiest fragments survive. One at least of these, the “Divination by Birds,” was, as we know from Proclus, attached to the end of the Works unti... ...ing how man can avoid disasters by attending to the omens to be drawn from birds. It is possible that the “ Astronomy” or “ Astrology” (as Plutarch ca... ...brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a plague to men. There he preyed upon the tribes of her own people and had power over T retus of Neme... ...ed. IV. (17 lines) (ll. 1-17) To what a fate did Zeus the Father give me a prey even while he made me to grow, a babe at my mother’s knee! By the will...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ... ―A powerful example of animal instincts was shown in the work of Eugene Marais. I‘m sure you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds ... ...which there was no contact with their parents, with nests, or with nest building materials. After the fourth generation Marais allowed the new birds ... ... from a self-centered, self-love motivation. Was it really just searching for orgasm? ―Some species are prepared to die for sex. The preyin... ...ubt, how can we doubt that some, many, most or all of us humans have instincts? Can we recognize our instincts? ―When we hear the birds ... ...t sub-Saharan Africa may be the worst. Stand up for yourself and get beaten or killed. Most women are not as strong as most men so are natural prey s... ...e 50% or more, they would certainly carry ideas or behaviors we would value. ―If we have a collective unconscious mind, it might carry mythol...

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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 description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be calle...

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...INBOW ............................................................................................................................. 87 RUNE IX ORIGIN OF IRON.................................................................................................................................................... 92 RUNE X ILMARINEN FORGES THE SAMPO ...................................

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...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 ... ... P UBLICATION The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...dearing diminutives. By a series of suffixes to the names of human beings, birds, fishes, trees, plants, stones, metals, and even actions, events, and... ... nature, and are at home amongst the animals of the wilderness, beasts and birds, winds, and woods, and waters, falling snows, and flying sands, and r... ...ble to aid their sor rowing and suffering worshipers. Certain beasts, and birds, and trees, are held sacred in Fin land. In the Kalevala are evident... ...aordinary value of the Kalevala is easily proved by the fact that from its mythological ideas we can frequently interpret the mythological conceptions... ...kainen; May perchance be drowned in Wuhne, Frozen In the icy ocean, Fallen prey to wolves in hunger, In a bear’s den may have perished.” 149 The Kale... ... Those that war without a reason Will be slaughtered for their folly, Easy prey to bows and arrows. Go thou with a goat to battle, Shouldst thou go to...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...quite natural and spontaneous, like the leaves of trees, like the plumage of birds. In all speculations they have tacitly figured man as a Clothed Anim... ...n Paradise and Fig leaves, and leads us into interminable disquisitions of a mythological, metaphorical, cabalistico sartorial and quite antediluvian ... ...t Caledonian, squatted himself in morasses, lurking for his bestial or human prey; without implements, without arms, save the ball of heavy Flint, to ... ... peaks: so bright, so mild, and everywhere the melody of 92 SARTOR RESARTUS birds and happy creatures: it was all as if man had stolen a shelter from... ... conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?” A prey incessantly to such corrosions, might not, moreover, as the worst ag... ... right soil, and now stretching out strong boughs to the four winds, for the birds of the air to lodge in,—may have been properly my doing? Some one’s...