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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09My impatience to inhabit the Hermitage not permitting me to wait until the return of fine weather, the moment my lodging was prepared I hastened to take possession of it, to the great amusement of the...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 08The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 08Having lived in the two most splendid houses in Paris, I had, notwithstanding my candor and modesty, made some acquaintance. Among others at Dupin's, that of the young hereditary prince of Saxe-Gotha, and of the Baron...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07After two years' silence and patience, and notwithstanding my resolutions, I again take up my pen: Reader, suspend your judgment as to the reasons which force me to such a step: of these you can be...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 06The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 06I cannot add, 'auctius acque di melius fecere'; but no matter, the former is enough for my purpose; I had no occasion to have any property there, it was sufficient that I enjoyed it; for I...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 05The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 05It was, I believe, in 1732, that I arrived at Chambery, as already related, and began my employment of registering land for the king. I was almost twenty-one, my mind well enough formed for my age,...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 04The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 04Let any one judge my surprise and grief at not finding her on my arrival. I now felt regret at having abandoned M. le Maitre, and my uneasiness increased when I learned the misfortunes that had...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 03The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 03Leaving the service of Madam de Vercellis nearly as I had entered it, I returned to my former hostess, and remained there five or six weeks; during which time health, youth, and laziness, frequently rendered my...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02The moment in which fear had instigated my flight, did not seem more terrible than that wherein I put my design in execution appeared delightful. To leave my relations, my resources, while yet a child, in...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all timemust be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and...
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ThelmaThelma Midnight,without darkness, without stars! Midnightand the unwearied sun stood, yet visible in the heavens, like a victorious king throned on a dais of royal purple bordered with gold. The sky above him,his canopy,gleamed with a cold yet lustrous blue, while across it slowly...
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To LetTo Let Soames Forsyte emerged from the Knightsbridge Hotel, where he was staying, in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1920, with the intention of visiting a collection of pictures in a Gallery off Cork Street, and looking into the Future. He walked....
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The Mirrors of WashingtonThe Mirrors of Washington President of the United States; b. Corsica, Morrow Co., O., Nov. 2, 1865; Educ. student of Ohio Central Coll. (now defunct), Iberia, 1879-82; engaged in newspaper business at Marion, O., since 1884; pres. Harding Pub. Co., pubs. Star (daily); mem....
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Reminiscences of Captain GronowReminiscences of Captain Gronow The spelling in this book is rather creative (including the occasional spelling of "ankle" as "ancle"), and the punctuation is remarkably varied. I have tried to preserve both, except that the spaces between a word and the following colon or...
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Cynthia's Revels Or, The Fountain of Self-LoveCynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English...
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The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five ActsThe Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts [The court-room in the palace at Fiori, extremely crowded with restless and expectant people. The crowd is arranged on both sides of the stage, in such a way that a broad avenue is left...
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The Trial Or, More Links of the Daisy ChainThe Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain 'Richard? That's right! Here's a tea-cup waiting for you,' as the almost thirty-year-old Incumbent of Cocksmoor, still looking like a young deacon, entered the room with his quiet step, and silent greeting to its four...
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A Naturalist's Voyage Round the WorldJournal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and...
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The Task, and Other PoemsThe Task, and Other PoemsAfter the publication of his Table Talk and other poems in March, 1782, William Cowper, in his quiet retirement at Olney, under Mrs. Unwins care, found a new friend in Lady Austen. She was a baronets widow who had a...
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A Century of RoundelsA Century of RoundelsLove, out of the depth of things, As a dewfall felt from above, From the heaven whence only springs Love, Love, heard from the heights thereof, The clouds and the watersprings, Draws close as the clouds remove. And the soul in...
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The House of LifeThe House of LifeA Sonnet is a moment's monument, Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As...
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