Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War... ...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and... ...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...its ends are simple; as- sertions of the moral elevation and loveliness of Germany; of the insuperable excellences of German Kultur, the Kaiser, and C... ...d say that this war is Queer. It is not like any- thing in a really waking world, but like something in a dream. It hasn’t exactly that clearness of l... ... that goes up full comes back empty, and many wounded were coming down and prisoners and troops returning to rest. Goritzia had been taken a week or s... ...ain rose the mountains to the east of the Isonzo which the Austrians still held. The Isonzo came towards me from out of the mountains, in a great west... ... to pieces, or using Italians instead of Austrian soldiers to garrison it. II. II. II. II. II. THE MOUNT THE MOUNT THE MOUNT THE MOUNT THE MOUNTAIN AI...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...ir by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ls A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary reader has all the advantage of ten years’... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...on of the entire detestableness of Jessica. 24 The War in the Air CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HO CHAPTER II: HOW BER W B... ...emed to matter to Mr. Bert Smallways that a newspaper placard proclaimed:— GERMANY DENOUNCES THE MONROE DOCTRINE. AMBIGUOUS ATTITUTDE OF JAPAN. WHAT W... ...r the nearest road in search of a gas main, and presently found themselves prisoners in the hands of a hostile crowd. Close at hand was a number of vi...

Description Details
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

Full Text Search Details
...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ...ER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art work by Suzie Kl... ...TRY OF SINGALING From one of the two most advanced countries of the world to the other. Singaling, just off the Malay Peninsula, tooled its ph... ...ard work of the population. Along the way he suppressed some free speech, held a lid on the press, sued and jailed some rivals, and often suppressed ... ... called „baby boomers‟. There are so many of them. After the Second World War the fertility rate went up to 3.8 during the twenty years after the war... ...ualified and justified reason. We are charitable, but not stupid! Look at Germany where two-thirds of the men have retired before the legal age throu... ... of Egypt 3500 years ago, after her husband and half-brother King Thutmose II died, she proclaimed herself king—since she was descended from the god ... ...irth defects but he cited the criteria used in making a decision to allow prisoners to use artificial insemination. Among the factors considered are...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is ... ... who will.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the m... ...ria to send an impossible ultimatum to Serbia, and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no e... ...a greater confidence and draw our net of prob- abilities a little tighter. II. II. II. II. II. THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF ... ...r have got fifty miles into either France or Belgium. They would have been held at Liége and in the Ardennes. Five hundred thousand men would have hel... ...or Russians take a humorous view of the treatment their people have had as prisoners in Germany. So long as these are living memories they will keep a...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. ...

Full Text Search Details
... Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...might be apt to forget, that, although no great historical events, such as war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate p... ...e of Fangs, the whole herd of his inharmonious charge. 12 Ivanhoe CHAPTER II A Monk there was, a fayre for the maistrie, An outrider that loved vener... ...ore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour. His features might have been called good, had there not ... ...ng two-handed sword, used by the chivalry of the period. A sec- ond squire held aloft his master’s lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a smal... ...uperstitions which his ances- tors had brought with them from the wilds of Germany. He remembered, moreover, that he was in the house of a Jew, a peop... ...ck which seemed to multiply their numbers. Both the Saxon chiefs were made prisoners at the same mo- ment, and each under circumstances expressive of ...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

Full Text Search Details
...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 bo... ...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ...r the student of history or psychology, but for the intelligent man of the world. Its startling frankness gives it a peculiar interest wanting in most... ...which o’er them shed tears feelingly and fast. “His life was one long war with self-sought foes, Or friends by him self-banished; for his mi... ...ance excited general attention. Edmund Burke had an interview with him and held that inordinate vanity was the leading trait in his character. Mr. Dav... ...t he suddenly disappeared, and we learned some time af- ter that he was in Germany, but he never wrote to us, and from that day we heard no news of hi... ...reader will have but too much of the melancholy subject. 47 Rousseau BOOK II The moment in which fear had instigated my flight, did not seem more ter... ... reach of the jurisdiction of the parliament, which has nothing to do with prisoners of state. I had no objection to this singular favor, provided it ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

Table of Contents Details
...INGTON .................................................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: CONGRESS ...................................................................................................................................... 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR ..........................................

Full Text Search Details
...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: CONGRESS ................................................................. ...n in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third ... ...ide which is on your right as you leave the Capitol. Of the other side the world knows nothing. And very bad shops they are. I doubt whether there be ... ... have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trollope ern party. Through the lines, into Virginia... ...r effort to rid herself of her painted sepulcher of an ancient throne; how Germany was made desolate, in order that Prussia might become a nation. Ire... ...His lettres de cachet no longer ran. His passport system was repealed. His prisoners were released. And though it is too much to say that writs of hab...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that ev...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents CHAPTER I: THE BLUE BALL ..............................................................................................4 CHAPTER II: ROYAL OAK.................................................................................................. 16 CHAPTER III: ?THE LIGHTED TREE? .................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...Aaron’s Rod Aaron’s Rod Aaron’s Rod Aaron’s Rod Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Aaro... ...lassics Series Publication Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ........................................................... 4 4 4 4 4 CHAPTER II: R CHAPTER II: R CHAPTER II: R CHAPTER II: R CHAPTER II: RO O O O OYAL O... ...X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: THE THE THE THE THE W W W W WAR A AR A AR A AR A AR AGAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN ............................ ...the tree. “What am I to put it in?” he queried. He picked up the tree, and held it erect by the topmost twig. He felt the cold as he stood in the yard... ...rsation or not?” asked the doctor. “I do indeed, all the difference in the world—T o me, there is no greater difference, than between an educated man ... ... foolishly let themselves be taken; perhaps half a dozen men, half a dozen prisoners; less rather than more. The sergeant ordered these to be secured ... ... a lot about him. I should like so much to meet him. But I heard he was in Germany—” “I don’t know where he is.” “Angus! Didn’t we hear that Lilly was...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: I. Introduction to a legend of Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attendi...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................................................................. 16 III. A LEGEND OF MO...

Full Text Search Details
...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................... ...duction of a personage proper to the time and country. In this he has been held by excellent judges to have been in some degree successful. The contem... ...lead the Scots abroad into the military service of countries which were at war with each other. They were distinguished on the Continent by their brav... ...of sergeant-major of artillery, by hard service in various quarters of the world, and was reck- oned one of the most tried and trusty men of the Scotc... ...nd the raisers of those valorous Scottish regiments that were the dread of Germany, began to fall pretty thick, what with pestilence and what with the... ... tenens, as we said at the Mareschal-College, until your warder visits his prisoners. But if not, I will first strangle you—I learned the art from a P...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How twelve aged ambassadors of Rome came to King Arthur to demand truage for Britain. When King Arthur had after long war rested, and held a royal feast and Table Round with his al lies of kings, princes, and noble knights all of the Round Table, there ...

Full Text Search Details
...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Five A Penn... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Five by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...King Arthur to demand truage for Britain. W hen King Arthur had after long war rested, and held a royal feast and Table Round with his al lies of king... ...emand truage for Britain. W hen King Arthur had after long war rested, and held a royal feast and Table Round with his al lies of kings, princes, and ... ...ny their truage unto that noble em- pire which domineth upon the universal world. Then when they had showed the effect of their message, the king comm... ...ght to claim the title of the empire. 5 Le Morte Darthur – Book V CHAPTER II How the kings and lords promised to King Arthur aid and help against the... ...thur for succour, and that he hie him, for I am sore wounded, and that our prisoners may pay goods out of number. And the messenger came to the king a... ...y. And methinketh this sufficeth for Britain, Ireland and all Almaine with Germany. And furthermore, I charge you to say to them, that I command them ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ....................................

Full Text Search Details
...C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A... ...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... .................................................................. 16 CHAPTER II: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE ...................................... .......................................... 16 CHAPTER II: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III:... ... children; and, at all stages of life, a natural sense of personal dignity held me back from exposing the least ray of feelings which I was not encour... ...upon medical men as people privileged, and naturally commissioned, to make war upon pain and sickness, I never had a misgiving about the result. I gri... ...s by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solemn reme... ...apers were of a nature to conciliate the public sympathy altogether to the prisoners; and the gen- eral belief accorded with what was, no doubt, the t...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents VOLUME II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES .........................................................

Full Text Search Details
... VO L L L L L UTI UTI UTI UTI UTI O O O O O N N N N N A HISTORY Volume Two by TH TH TH TH THO O O O OMA MA MA MA MAS CA S CA S CA S CA S CAR R R R RL ... ...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents VOLUME II.—THE CONSTITUTION ......................................................... ...French Revolution—V olume Two Menadic Insurrection, as in this ever-kindly world all rub- bish can and must be, is swept aside; and so again, on clear... ...hus, in these June days, when the question Who shall have right to declare war? comes on, you hear hoarse Hawkers sound dolefully through the streets,... ...is same Tuileries Garden, in gilt cocked hat, with Journal at his nose, or held loose- 31 Thomas Carlyle folded behind his back; and was a notability... ... reparation of the Castle of Vincennes? Other Jails being all crowded with prisoners, new space is wanted here: that is the Municipal account. For in ... ...ing at Liege; ‘three thousand horses’ ambling hitherward from the Fairs of Germany: Cavalry enrolling; likewise Foot-soldiers, ‘in blue coat, red wais...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Third T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ............................................................. ...sed it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arminius... ...de, preserved himself by his moderation in that universal shipwreck of the world, amongst so many mutations and diversities? For private man, as he wa... ...s; and thus Gelo, the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barbarians, keeping a resi- dent ambassador with... ...tion, that rebounds them to an extremity quite contrary to its cause. This held good with one Octavius at Rome. Hav- ing lain with Pontia Posthumia, h... ...d accept them. The Scythian women put out the eyes of all their slaves and prisoners of war, that they might have their pleasure of them, and they nev...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controve...

Full Text Search Details
...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- si... ...call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some... ...ed the signature of the treaty of Cateau-Cabresis, good-natured King Henri II. presided mer- rily at the union of the little pair, whose unite ages di... ...of England to the bravest of knights. The precious heirlooms were scarcely held with the respect due to an ornament so acquired. The manly garb for th... ...no means likely to be so enduring as to lead her to make complaints of the prisoners; and when he heard a trampling of horses in the court, he anticip... ...ne who repented of it as a thing done ere he had learnt to weigh the whole world against a soul.’ ‘Yes, you must see her,’ said Lucy. ‘Well, what more... ...a- tion of the marriage, and promised to send to the English Ambassador in Germany, to obtain the like from Father Meinhard. The document itself he ad...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

Table of Contents Details
...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

Full Text Search Details
... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) i... ...tronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Universi... ...nly the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it. Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom’s early life. III. Tom’s ... ... neighbour up; and times we make mud pastry—oh the lovely mud, it hath not its like for delightfulness in all the world!— we do fairly wallow in the m... ... the old Baron Marley, being mad, forgot the favour of his own countenance that he had known for sixty years, and held it was another’s; nay, even cla... ...oment a servant entered with the breakfast. “Explain, thou limb of Satan, or thy time is come!” roared the man of war, and made so savage a spring tow... ...he three doomed persons knelt, also, and remained so; the guard took position behind Tom’s chair. Tom scanned the prisoners curiously. Something about... ...it believable that there was warrant for this man’s ferocious doom?” “It is the law, your Grace—for poisoners. In Germany coiners be boiled to death i...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... 24 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KING...

Full Text Search Details
...A CHILD S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A C... ...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................... ...CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sph... ...nd trusty animals. The art I mean, is the construction and man agement of war chariots or cars, for which they have ever been celebrated in history. ... ...ns lost the day. The wife and daughter of the brave Caractacus were taken prisoners; his brothers delivered themselves up; he himself was betrayed in... ... people from the coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the best grapes grow to make the German wine.... ...of gold, in his reign, without fear, allowed his child to be baptised, and held a great council to consider whether he and his people should all be Ch...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ... AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW ................................................................. ....................................................... 374 CHAPTER XLVIII OF WAR HORSES, OR DESTRIERS ..................................................... ...als. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It to... ...all really interesting and important matter in the journal of the T our in Germany and Italy, which, as it was merely written under Montaigne’s dictat... ...d attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused him to be held at the font by persons of meanest position; subsequently he put him ou... ...ewhere for the like offence he only condemned others to remain amongst the prisoners under the baggage ensign. The severe punishment the people of Rom...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin charact...

Table of Contents Details
............................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUT...

Full Text Search Details
...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On... ...Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM....................................... ...scourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world’s business, how they have shaped themselves in the world’s history, w... ...ral: herdsmen, carriers, traders, generally robbers too; being oftenest at war one with another, or with all: held 46 Thomas Carlyle together by no o... ...enerally robbers too; being oftenest at war one with another, or with all: held 46 Thomas Carlyle together by no open bond, if it were not this meeti... ...had come to this. The young Emperor Charles Fifth, with all the Princes of Germany, Papal nuncios, dignitaries spiritual and temporal, are assembled t... ...ruth; it was a pented bredd: wor- ship it he would not. He told his fellow-prisoners, in this darkest time, to be of courage; the Cause they had was t...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge.

Table of Contents Details
...E LITTLE WAIF ............................................................................................................................. 6 CHAPTER II EVIL TIDINGS ................................................................................................................................ 18 CHAPTER III THE CAPTIVE.........................................................

Full Text Search Details
...Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Elec... ...Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication U... ................................................................... 6 CHAPTER II EVIL TIDINGS ............................................................. ... a few days ago dreaded the sorrow of his return, she would now have given worlds to hear his step. Hark, what is that in the street? Oh, folly! If th... ...ain described the impregnable aspect of the castle of Dumbarton, which was held for Queen Mary by her faithful partisan, Lord Flemyng. On this, Cuthbe... ... were, as the Cavendish sisters often said in their spleen, almost as much prisoners as the Queen of Scots. Antony Babington was always her special pa... ...ow how to give a lady his hand,” said the teasing girl. And so the playful war was carried on, while the father, having silenced and dismissed the two... ...se- cure to him, and then let me retire to some convent in Lorraine, or in Germany, or wherever she would, so would I never trouble her more!” “Will y...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

Table of Contents Details
... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION M... ...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ....................................... 194 MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. II. .......................................................................... ...ng agitations and the un- conquerable impatience of my nervous malady. 2. “War.”** —In this paper, from having faultily adjusted its proportions in th... ...s as it is thought worth while to plead. But in French casuistry it is not held necessary to plead anything; war justifies itself. To fight for the ex... ... Suppose the case, therefore, that Kate’s memoirs had been thrown upon the world with no vouchers for their authen- ticity beyond such internal presum... ...entury, or between the privileged cities and the un- privileged country of Germany down to the Thirty Years’ War; but, for us, they are in the last de... ...ught amongst the ruins, and massa- cred each other without mercy; the only prisoners that were spared owed their lives to fanaticism; some Christian y...