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“In our way, at Kensington we understood how that my Lord Chesterfield had killed another gentleman about half an hour before, and was fled.” Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 02: January 1659-1660 · vivid
“It is a blessed thing that the tyrant may not always know the thoughts and purposes of his victim.” Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom · insight
“I will go in to the King, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.” W. E. B. Du Bois (William Edward Burghardt Du Bois), The Souls of Black Folk · precept
“No event can be compared with this continuous removal of the human race, except perhaps those irruptions which preceded the fall of the Roman Empire.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America — Volume 1 · observation
“Every one, excepting myself, had cause to be dissatisfied; but to me the ascent afforded a most interesting section of the great tertiary formation of Patagonia.” Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle · observation
“An undulating land, with a desolate and wretched aspect, is everywhere covered by a peaty soil and wiry grass, of one monotonous brown colour.” Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle · vivid
“And I in particular slept so sound, that, whoever he was, he was able to come and prop me up on four stakes, which he put under the four corners of the pack-saddle in such a way that he left me mounted on it, and took away Dapple from under me without my feeling it.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote · vivid
“Should your mighty foes be helped by thirty thousand men, yet could I withstand them, had I but a thousand; for that rely on me.” Unknown (Middle High German epic tradition), The Nibelungenlied · insight
“And the gods themselves lightly unclasped my bands, and muffling my head with the wrap I slid down the smooth lading-plank, and set my breast to the sea and rowed hard with both hands as I swam.” Homer, The Odyssey of Homer · vivid
“Monopoly, besides, is a great enemy to good management, which can never be universally established, but in consequence of that free and universal competition which forces every body to have recourse to it for the sake of self defence.” Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth · insight
“St. Julian, in whose honour I say my paternoster, has gotten me this favour of God; nor should I look for a prosperous journey and a safe arrival at night, if I had not said it in the morning.” Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Volume I · precept
“A babbling tongue shall kill him: let him fly / All talkers, as he wishes not to die.” Horace, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace · precept
Douglass arranges for Isaac Rolls to deliver his baggage at the moment the train departs, boards secretly in motion, and relies on his sailor disguise and knowledge while a conductor doubts him.
did not describe its bearer very accurately. Indeed, it called for a man much darker than myself, and close examination of it would have caused my arrest at the start. In order to avoid this fatal scrutiny on the part of railroad officials, I arranged with Isaac Rolls, a Baltimore hackman, to bring my baggage to the Philadelphia train just on the moment of starting, and jumped upon the car myself when the train was …
On Pepys’s birthday and shortly after, he rides from London to Cambridge, visits Magdalene College and a tavern, travels toward Saffron Walden and Audley End, and observes political talk about the King’s return.
one end to the other with a glory about it, so high was the light of the bonfires, and so thick round the City, and the bells rang every where. 22nd. Walking in the Hall, I saw Major General Brown, [Richard Brown, a Major-General of the Parliament forces, Governor of Abingdon, and Member for London in the Long Parliament. He had been imprisoned by the Rump Faction.] who had a long time been banished by the Rump, …
At the year’s start and into January 1666, Pepys travels with the Duke of Albemarle to hear plague declines, then returns to London in a lively coach and observes urban reopening and river encroachments.
the story of the several Archbishops of Canterbury, engrossed in vellum, to hang up in Canterbury Cathedrall in tables, in lieu of the old ones, which are almost worn out. 30th. All the afternoon to my accounts; and there find myself, to my great joy, a great deal worth above 4000l. for which the Lord be praised! and is principally occasioned by my getting 500l. of Cocke, for my profit in his bargains of prize goo…
Pepys visits Audley End and praises its gallery and cellars but criticizes decayed interiors, then travels through Stortford to Cambridge and onwards to Huntingdon and Brampton, enjoying family visits and noting financial strains among relatives.
new play, and is said now-a-days to have generally most company, as being better players. By and by into the pit, and there saw the play, which is pretty good. 7th. I and my wife, and Willet, [Mrs. Pepys's maid.] set out in a coach I have hired with four horses; and W. Hewer and Murford rode by us on horse-back; and before night come to Bishop- Stafford. [Stortford.] Took coach to Audly-End, and did go all over …
Pepys records his purchase news, urban talk about a meteor or fire near Cheapside, preparations for travel to Brampton, and his wet journey onward by coach toward Bishop’s Stortford and Cambridge.
them down, and we avoiding the bad way in the forest by a privy way, which brought us to Hodsden; and so to Tibald's that road; which was mighty pleasant. 27th. Met Mr. Sawyer, my old chamber-fellow; and he and I by water together to the Temple, he giving me an account of the base, rude usage which he and Sir G. Carteret had lately before the Commissioners of Accounts, where he was as Counsel to Sir G. Carteret; wh…
While traveling, Pepys attends sermons and visits at Brampton and Cambridge, including time at Magdalene College butteries, then returns toward London by stages via Hodsden and Tibald’s road.
that I was in to-night, though full of wit; and worth a man's being in for once to know the nature of it, and their manner of talk and lives. 31st. I hear that Mrs. Davis is quite gone from the Duke of York's house, and Gosnell comes in her room; which I am glad of. At the play at Court the other night Mrs. Davis was there; and when she was to come to dance her jigg, the Queene would not stay to see it; which peopl…
On January 2nd Pepys arranges sack and errands to Temple and City contacts, walks Westminster Hall to hear rumors of Lambert’s approach, continues financial dealings, and gathers news about the House completing acts and expecting further measures.
married Sir Arthur Harris, Bart. She died 1686.]--and Madam Morrice, and supt with us. After that my wife and I went home with them, and so to our own home. 2nd. In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains. Then I went to Mr. Sheply,--[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward Montagu]--who was drawing of sack in the wine cellar to se…
On the 16th and 17th Pepys worries about office matters and travel to Twickenham, sings and drinks with friends near Charing Cross, hears a dueling killing at Kensington, then travels toward Twickenham and Brentford market day.
this very line, and cried, "Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." I then went to bed, and left my wife and the maid a-washing still. 17th. Early I went to Mr. Crew's, and having given Mr. Edward money to give the servants, I took him into the coach that waited for us and carried him to my house, where the coach waited for me while I and the child went to Westminster Hall, and bought him some pi…
Crossing from Corcyra into Sicily, the Athenians land at the Iapygian promontory near Tarentum, coast the Italian shore under hostile gates, regroup at Rhegium, camp outside Artemis, negotiate with Rhegians, and wait for Egesta’s promised money.
and Sicily to find out which of the cities would receive them, with instructions to meet them on the way and let them know before they put in to land. After this the Athenians weighed from Corcyra, and proceeded to cross to Sicily with an armament now consisting of one hundred and thirty-four galleys in all (besides two Rhodian fifty-oars), of which one hundred were Athenian vessels—sixty men-of-war, and forty troop…
The heifer is killed and butchered for burning thigh bones and roasting meat, Telemachus is washed and dressed by Polycaste, and Nestor sends him off by chariot toward Lacedaemon with provisions and horses.
began with washing his hands and sprinkling the barley meal, and he offered many a prayer to Minerva as he threw a lock from the heifer’s head upon the fire. When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley meal32 Thrasymedes dealt his blow, and brought the heifer down with a stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck, whereon the daughters and daughters in law of Nestor, and his venerable wife …
Odysseus kills a large stag in the forest to feed his men, then calls a council at dawn because they cannot orient east or west and assigns Eurylochus to search separately.
out more, but in the end I deemed it best to go back to the ship, give the men their dinners, and send some of them instead of going myself. “When I had nearly got back to the ship some god took pity upon my solitude, and sent a fine antlered stag right into the middle of my path. He was coming down his pasture in the forest to drink of the river, for the heat of the sun drove him, and as he passed I struck him in t…
At Pylos, Telemachus refuses to be delayed at Menelaus’s friends’ house, orders preparations for sailing home, and meets Theoclymenus, a seer fleeing Argos after killing a man.
under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court. Then Pisistratus lashed his horses on and they flew forward nothing loath; ere long they came to Pylos, and then Telemachus said: “Pisistratus, I hope you will promise to do what I am going to ask you. You know our fathers were old friends before us; moreover, we are both of an age, and this journey has brought us together still more closely; do not, therefore, take me…
At dawn Telemachus goes to town, instructing his father-disguised as a beggar to request food, and reunites emotionally with Penelope; later he and Eumaeus discuss the town’s news and Telemachus proceeds toward the assembly.
TELEMACHUS AND HIS MOTHER MEET—ULYSSES AND EUMAEUS COME DOWN TO THE TOWN, AND ULYSSES IS INSULTED BY MELANTHIUS—HE IS RECOGNISED BY THE DOG ARGOS—HE IS INSULTED AND PRESENTLY STRUCK BY ANTINOUS WITH A STOOL—PENELOPE DESIRES THAT HE SHALL BE SENT TO HER. When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, Telemachus bound on his sandals and took a strong spear that suited his hands, for he wanted to go into the …
Odysseus the stranger claims he is from a different land and tells Laertes about the years since his guest was entertained; Laertes laments that his son is dead and asks the stranger for identity and the ship’s fate.
twelve fair mantles, and an equal number of shirts. To all this I added four good looking women skilled in all useful arts, and I let him take his choice.” His father shed tears and answered, “Sir, you have indeed come to the country that you have named, but it is fallen into the hands of wicked people. All this wealth of presents has been given to no purpose. If you could have found your friend here alive in Ithaca…
The editors present a day-by-day recap of the Odyssey’s opening in Ithaca and overseas: Athene’s intervention, Telemachus’s assembly and journey to Pylos and Sparta, and the wooers’ ambush plans.
DAY 2 (Book ii). Telemachus assembles the people, but he has not the heart to carry out Athene’s advice. He cannot send the wooers away, nor turn his mother out of her house. He rather weakly appeals to the wooers’ consciences, and announces his intention of going to seek his father. They answer with scorn, but are warned of their fate, which is even at the doors, by Halitherses. His prophecy (first made when Odysse…
Telemachus and Peisistratus ride from Pylos to Pherae, rest for the night at Diocles’ house, and continue onward at dawn, moving toward their next destination.
“Lo now, my sons, yoke for Telemachus horses with flowing mane and lead them beneath the car, that he may get forward on his way.” Even so he spake, and they gave good heed and hearkened; and quickly they yoked the swift horses beneath the chariot. And the dame that kept the stores placed therein corn and wine and dainties, such as princes eat, the fosterlings of Zeus. So Telemachus stept up into the goodly car, and…
Odysseus praises communal feasting, then identifies himself as Odysseus of Ithaca and narrates his voyage: from Ismarus against the Cicones, to the lotus-eaters, and onward toward the Cyclopes.
Odysseus relates, first, what befell him amongst the Cicones at Ismarus; secondly, amongst the Lotophagi; thirdly, how he was used by the Cyclops Polyphemus. And Odysseus of many counsels answered him saying: “King Alcinous, most notable of all the people, verily it is a good thing to list to a minstrel such as this one, like to the gods in voice. Nay, as for me, I say that there is no more gracious or perfect delig…
Odysseus continues by describing the aftermath of Ismarus and his storm-battered drift past Cythera, then his arrival at the lotus-eaters and the forcing of his men back to the ships.
at last the Cicones drave in the Achaeans and overcame them, and six of my goodly-greaved company perished from each ship: but the remnant of us escaped death and destiny. “Thence we sailed onward stricken at heart, yet glad as men saved from death, albeit we had lost our dear companions. Nor did my curved ships move onward ere we had called thrice on each of those our hapless fellows, who died at the hands of the C…
Odysseus continues his story: after being taken to Phoenicia, he is clothed again, learns about Odysseus from the king, is sent on to Thesprotian ships to Dulichium, then escapes a planned enslavement in Ithaca by swimming away.
me to his house, foredone with toil and the keen air, till he came to his father’s palace. And he clothed me in a mantle and a doublet for raiment. “There I heard tidings of Odysseus, for the king told me that he had entertained him, and kindly entreated him on his way to his own country; and he showed me all the wealth that Odysseus had gathered, bronze and gold and well-wrought iron; yea it would suffice for his c…
At Albany in Dougherty County, Du Bois explains the county’s geography, Creek treaty and settlement history, describes Saturday market crowds of Black residents, and begins an overland journey into rural plantation country.
but we can see the great cotton country as we enter it,—the soil now dark and fertile, now thin and gray, with fruit-trees and dilapidated buildings,—all the way to Albany. At Albany, in the heart of the Black Belt, we stop. Two hundred miles south of Atlanta, two hundred miles west of the Atlantic, and one hundred miles north of the Great Gulf lies Dougherty County, with ten thousand Negroes and two thousand whites…
After being escorted out for the seating mistake and saying he will go to Altamaha, John returns south, plans a life-work around duty, and re-enters his hometown’s Jim Crow reality with cold misunderstanding.
the sea-sand sinks by the shores of Altamaha, only to be lifted aloft again with that last ethereal wail of the swan that quivered and faded away into the sky. It left John sitting so silent and rapt that he did not for some time notice the usher tapping him lightly on the shoulder and saying politely, “Will you step this way, please, sir?” A little surprised, he arose quickly at the last tap, and, turning to leave …
Hannibal crosses the Pyrenees, camps at Illiberis, negotiates passage with Gaulish tribes at Ruscino, and allows his army to pass unhindered after the Gauls are won by his gifts.
also be irritated, sent home above seven thousand men, whom also he had observed to be annoyed with the service, pretending that the Carpetani had also been dismissed by him. 24. Then, lest delay and ease might unsettle their minds, he crosses the Pyrenees with the rest of his forces, and pitches his camp at the town Illiberis. The Gauls, though they had heard that the war was directed against Italy, yet because the…
Hannibal marches along the Latin Road toward Rome after ravaging places near Casinum and Liris; meanwhile Fulvius is delayed by destroyed ships at the Vulturnus, and Rome panics with women and public alarms.
army across in one night, after providing a stock of provisions for ten days, he led his legions down to the river by night, and passed them over before daylight. 8. Fulvius Flaccus, who had discovered from deserters that this would happen, before it took place, having written to Rome to the senate to apprize them of it, men's minds were variously affected by it according to the disposition of each. As might be expe…
Douglass is moved from Baltimore to St. Michael’s after Master Thomas marries Rowena Hamilton and quarrels with Master Hugh; he longs for Baltimore boys and considers escape.
present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains. Will not a righteous God visit for these things? In about two years after the death of Mrs. Lucretia, Master Thomas married his second wife. Her name was Rowena Hamilton. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. William Hamilton. Master now lived in St. Michael’s. Not long after his marriage, a misunderstanding…
After Covey’s assault, Douglass resolves to complain to Master Thomas, walks about seven miles through woods and bogs, but Covey threatens him back, chasing him until Douglass hides in corn.
course stopped; every one had his own work to do; and no one could do the work of the other, and have his own go on at the same time. Mr. Covey was at the house, about one hundred yards from the treading-yard where we were fanning. On hearing the fan stop, he left immediately, and came to the spot where we were. He hastily inquired what the matter was. Bill answered that I was sick, and there was no one to bring whea…
With Ruggles’s support and a five-dollar bill, Douglass and Anna travel via steamboat and stage to Newport and then New Bedford, where abolitionists Nathan Johnson, Joseph Ricketson, and William C. Taber help them.
Ricketson and William C. Taber. They seemed at once to understand our circumstances, and gave us such assurance of their friendliness as put us fully at ease in their presence. It was good indeed to meet with such friends, at such a time. Upon reaching New Bedford, we were directed to the house of Mr. Nathan Johnson, by whom we were kindly received, and hospitably provided for. Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson took a deep …
Herzl describes how emigrants will receive clothing in exchange for old garments, how the Society of Jews will manage religious and educational guidance during departure and travel, and how the company will coordinate arrivals.
able to give valuable assistance here, for they will do for the Company's colonists what they did before for departing Jews. The forms of such cooperation will easily be found. Even the new clothing of the poor settlers will have the symbolic meaning. "You are now entering on a new life." The Society of Jews will see to it that long before the departure and also during the journey a serious yet festive spirit is fos…
Madison argues that improved roads, canals, and inland navigation will ease communication, and that frontier states needing foreign protection will make tradeoffs that preserve balance across the Union’s regions.
it would not be difficult to show that if they were abolished the general government would be compelled, by the principle of self-preservation, to reinstate them in their proper jurisdiction. A second observation to be made is that the immediate object of the federal Constitution is to secure the union of the thirteen primitive States, which we know to be practicable; and to add to them such other States as may aris…
The author adds that federal legislators must learn foreign affairs and that travel distances and the need to prevent reliance on established incumbents support two-year service rather than one-year terms.
But with all these abatements, the business of federal legislation must continue so far to exceed, both in novelty and difficulty, the legislative business of a single State, as to justify the longer period of service assigned to those who are to transact it. A branch of knowledge which belongs to the acquirements of a federal representative, and which has not been mentioned is that of foreign affairs. In regulating …
Madison argues that the Union’s geographic size is within feasible limits for representatives to meet, then supports this with examples from Britain and Europe before turning to further considerations.
that any of her citizens should wish to deprive her of the additional merit of displaying its full efficacy in the establishment of the comprehensive system now under her consideration. As the natural limit of a democracy is that distance from the central point which will just permit the most remote citizens to assemble as often as their public functions demand, and will include no greater number than can join in th…
He adds that the general government does not administer all lawmaking, that the Constitution aims first at uniting the thirteen original states, and that improved roads and inland navigation will aid communication.
it would not be difficult to show that if they were abolished the general government would be compelled, by the principle of self-preservation, to reinstate them in their proper jurisdiction. A second observation to be made is that the immediate object of the federal Constitution is to secure the union of the thirteen primitive States, which we know to be practicable; and to add to them such other States as may aris…
The narrative shifts to Aeneas’ journey after Anchises’ death: funeral rites for Cajeta, encounters with Circe’s magical beasts near the Tiberwood, and an invocation to sing Latium’s origins and the war over Lavinia.
THE ARGUMENT. King Latinus entertains Aeneas, and promises him his only daughter, Lavinia, the heiress of his crown. Turnus, being in love with her, favoured by her mother, and by Juno and Alecto, breaks the treaty which was made, and engages in his quarrel Mezentius, Camilla, Messapus, and many other of the neighbouring princes; whose forces, and the names of their commanders are …
After emancipation, many change surnames and briefly leave the old plantation; Washington’s stepfather summons his family to the Kanawha Valley in West Virginia, prompting a long overland journey.
Boyhood Days After the coming of freedom there were two points upon which practically all the people on our place were agreed, and I found that this was generally true throughout the South: that they must change their names, and that they must leave the old plantation for at least a few days or weeks in order that they might really feel sure that they were free. In some way a feeling got among the coloured people t…
Washington travels from Malden toward Hampton, struggles with money, experiences racial refusal at a hotel in Virginia mountains, walks and begs rides to Richmond, and reports being unable to find lodging or food despite seeing tempting street foods.
no through trains connecting that part of West Virginia with eastern Virginia. Trains ran only a portion of the way, and the remainder of the distance was travelled by stage-coaches. The distance from Malden to Hampton is about five hundred miles. I had not been away from home many hours before it began to grow painfully evident that I did not have enough money to pay my fare to Hampton. One experience I shall long …
They agree on travel precautions: go north to avoid overheating and keep their route contrary to the wind, make or carry a tent nightly, and equip themselves with a horse, a tent-sail, and arms.
they could agree about what way they should travel, which they were so far from adjusting that even to the morning they set out they were not resolved on it. At last the seaman put in a hint that determined it. ‘First,’ says he, ‘the weather is very hot, and therefore I am for travelling north, that we may not have the sun upon our faces and beating on our breasts, which will heat and suffocate us;…
The new group traces itself to Islington/Cripplegate and explains earlier lodging shut-ups; after traveling around Holloway and Hornsey/Newington, they plan toward Epping Forest, but the horse forces the three travelers to stay on roads.
Richard. How then was it that you came away no sooner? Ford. We have been away some time, and kept together as well as we could at the hither end of Islington, where we got leave to lie in an old uninhabited house, and had some bedding and conveniences of our own that we brought with us; but the plague is come up into Islington too, and a house next door to our poor dwelling was infecte…
He says many families fled too late and carried plague elsewhere, and he insists that people may travel while infected and unknowingly infect entire towns; “Londoners” are blamed for spreading it.
and if it did seize upon them, they would, by their living so much at large, be much better prepared to defend themselves against the infection, and be less liable to the effects of it than if the same number of people lived close together in one smaller city such as Dublin or Amsterdam or the like. It is true hundreds, yea, thousands of families fled away at this last plague, but then …
Douglass recounts being led from Tuckahoe to his old master on Wye River, hidden from the full truth by his grandmother, walking twelve miles with her help, and learning that distance and perspective change how things seem.
them, there would, occasionally, come the painful foreboding that I was not long to remain there, and that I must soon be called away to the home of old master. I was A SLAVE—born a slave and though the fact was incomprehensible to me, it conveyed to my mind a sense of my entire dependence on the will of *somebody* I had never seen; and, from some cause or other, I had been made to fear this somebody above all else …
During the journey to Baltimore, Douglass visits or passes Annapolis, then arrives Sunday at Smith’s wharf and goes to Alliciana Street near Fell’s Point to begin caring for little Tommy Auld.
market-house; he spoke of the bells ringing; and of many other things which roused my curiosity very much; and, indeed, which heightened my hopes of happiness in my new home. We sailed out of Miles river for Baltimore early on a Saturday morning. I remember only the day of the week; for, at that time, I had no knowledge of the days of the month, nor, indeed, of the months of the year. On setting sail, I walked aft, …
After meeting two sympathetic Irishmen on Mr. Waters’s wharf, Douglass plans escape north to seek freedom, then begins learning to write using shipyard markings, copybooks, chalk, and stolen Bible hymn texts.
With all other blessings sought at the mercy seat, I always prayed that God would, of His great mercy, and in His own good time, deliver me from my bondage. I went, one day, on the wharf of Mr. Waters; and seeing two Irishmen unloading a large scow of stone, or ballast I went on board, unasked, and helped them. When we had finished the work, one of the men came to me, aside, and asked me a number of questions, and a…
Douglass decides to seek Capt. Thomas Auld at St. Michael’s, walks about seven miles while bleeding and exhausted, escapes Covey’s threats, hides in the woods, and fears he may die.
Auld acquainted with the atrocious cruelty of his brother Covey, and beseech him to get me another master? Remembering the object he had in view, in placing me under the management of Covey, and further, his cruel treatment of my poor crippled cousin, Henny, and his meanness in the matter of feeding and clothing his slaves, there was little ground to hope for a favorable reception at the hands of Capt. Thomas Auld. N…
On January 1, 1835 Douglass leaves St. Michael’s for three miles to William Freeland’s farm, describing Freeland as markedly less cruel than Covey yet still a slaveholder.
might have been, had it not been abused by us. It was about as well to be a slave to *master*, as to be a slave to *rum* and *whisky.* I am the more induced to take this view of the holiday system, adopted by slaveholders, from what I know of their treatment of slaves, in regard to other things. It is the commonest thing for them to try to disgust their slaves with what they do not want them to have, or to enjoy. A …
In 1838 Douglass describes his mentally painful slavery system of weekly wage robbery and watchesescape, noting strict transport rules from Baltimore toward Philadelphia and surveillance by kidnappers.
now proceed to the statement of those facts, connected with my escape, for which I am alone responsible, and for which no one can be made to suffer but myself. My condition in the year (1838) of my escape, was, comparatively, a free and easy one, so far, at least, as the wants of the physical man were concerned; but the reader will bear in mind, that my troubles from the beginning, have been less physical than menta…
Douglass prepares for escape by repeatedly earning wages and hiding his intentions from Master Hugh, then leaves Baltimore on Monday, September 3, 1838, using a planned route it refuses to detail.
escape from slavery. The refusal to allow me to hire my time, therefore, hastened the period of flight. I had three weeks, now, in which to prepare for my journey. Once resolved, I felt a certain degree of repose, and on Monday, instead of waiting for Master Hugh to seek employment for me, I was up by break of day, and off to the ship yard of Mr. Butler, on the City Block, near the draw-bridge. I was a favorite with…
Theseus is raised by Pittheus and goes to Delphi, learns a tonsure custom, receives the tokens under the stone, and chooses land over sea because the roads to Athens are dangerous with robbers and outlaws.
one; for he greatly feared the Pallantidae, who were continually mutinying against him, and despised him for his want of children, they themselves being fifty brothers, all sons of Pallas. When Aethra was delivered of a son, some say that he was immediately named Theseus, from the tokens which his father had put @ under the stone; others that he received his name afterwards at Athens, when Aegeus acknowledged him fo…
When Sylla prepares to leave Italy, Plutarch recounts omens affecting Mithridates at Pergamum and summarizes Mithridates’s conquests, including operations in Greece and resistance near Chaeronea.
against Sylla, got Virginius, one of the tribunes of the people, to be his accuser; but Sylla, leaving him and the court of judicature to themselves, set forth against Mithridates. About the time that Sylla was making ready to put oft with his forces from Italy, besides many other omens which befell Mithridates, then staying at Pergamus, there goes a story that a figure of Victory, with a crown in her hand, which th…
After Chaeronea, Sylla responds to new threats from Flaccus, hastens toward Thessaly, and clashes with Mithridates’s forces near Orchomenus, describing local geography and waterways used for tactics.
he took away and consecrated to Apollo and Jupiter, ordering that out of the revenue compensation should be made to the gods for the riches himself had taken from them. After this, hearing that Flaccus, a man of the contrary faction, had been chosen consul, and was crossing the Ionian Sea with an army, professedly to act against Mithridates, but in reality against himself, he hastened towards Thessaly, designing to …
Lucullus recalls Sulla’s dream-based caution, then switches from ending war with Mithridates/Tigranes to campaigning into Lycaonia, Cilicia, and onward, dividing responsibilities while crossing the Euphrates and using favorable omens to proceed.
he remembered the admonition of Sylla, whose advice it is in his Memoirs, to treat nothing as so certain and so worthy of reliance as an intimation given in dreams. When it was now told him that Mithridates and Tigranes were just ready to transport their forces into Lycaonia and Cilicia, with the object of entering Asia before him, he wondered much why the Armenian, supposing him to entertain any real intention to f…
After wintering by the Po, Caesar goes to the region dividing Gaul by the Rubicon boundary of Italy, while Pompey is depicted as missing Caesar’s growing Roman favor as Belgae revolt and Nervii nearly massacre legions.
of the slain. Ariovistus made shift to pass the Rhine with the small remains of an army, for it is said the number of the slain amounted to eighty thousand. After this action, Caesar left his army at their winter-quarters in the country of the Sequani, and in order to attend to affairs at Rome, went into that part of Gaul which lies on the Po, and was part of his province; for the river Rubicon divides Gaul, which i…
After being made dictator and then resigning quickly, Caesar sails midwinter from Brundisium, takes Oricum and Apollonia, and faces complaints from his exhausted soldiers while waiting for transport to him in Epirus.
fight, and hemming them with his fortifications, till by main force he made himself master of their camps and their forces. Only the generals got off, and fled to Pompey. When Caesar came back to Rome, Piso, his father-in-law, advised him to send men to Pompey, to treat of a peace; but Isauricus, to ingratiate himself with Caesar, spoke against it. After this, being created dictator by the senate, he called home th…
After Antony’s defeat and famine, he rallies troops across the Alps, secures Lepidus’s camp through a strategic march rather than violence, and returns to Italy with major forces.
Nay, it is related they ate the very bark of trees, and, in passing over the Alps, lived upon creatures that no one before had ever been willing to touch. The design was to join the army on the other side the Alps, commanded by Lepidus, who he imagined would stand his friend, he having done him many good offices with Caesar. On coming up and encamping near at hand, finding he had no sort of encouragement offered hi…
Don Quixote continues toward home, then at a crossroads waits for an encounter with traders heading from Toledo to Murcia, demanding that they confess Dulcinea del Toboso is the fairest.
“All the world stand, unless all the world confess that in all the world there is no maiden fairer than the Empress of La Mancha, the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso.” The traders halted at the sound of this language and the sight of the strange figure that uttered it, and from both figure and language at once guessed the craze of their owner; they wished, however, to learn quietly what was the object of this confessio…
At dawn, goatherds escort Don Quixote to Chrysostom’s burial as they meet mournful shepherds in black with cypress garlands and two on horseback, one named Vivaldo.
IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS MARCELA, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS c13a.jpg (181K) Full Size But hardly had day begun to show itself through the balconies of the east, when five of the six goatherds came to rouse Don Quixote and tell him that if he was still of a mind to go and see the famous burial of Chrysostom they would bear him company. Don Quixote, who desired nothing better, rose and ordered Sanch…
Don Quixote learns he struck a churchman and hears the man claims he is only a bachelor (not a licentiate) from Alcobendas; he explains they are taking the dead gentleman’s bones from Baeza to Segovia, while Sancho helps free him.
reverence know that I am a knight of La Mancha, Don Quixote by name, and it is my business and calling to roam the world righting wrongs and redressing injuries.” “I do not know how that about righting wrongs can be,” said the bachelor, “for from straight you have made me crooked, leaving me with a broken leg that will never see itself straight again all the days of its life; and the injury you have redressed in my …
Sancho returns and explains how his donkey was stolen during their Sierra Morena escape by propping him on stakes, how he later saw the donkey in the service of Gines de Pasamonte, and how he spent the hundred crowns for his family.
IN WHICH SANCHO PANZA GIVES A SATISFACTORY REPLY TO THE DOUBTS AND QUESTIONS OF THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTH KNOWING AND TELLING p04a.jpg (143K) Full Size Sancho came back to Don Quixote’s house, and returning to the late subject of conversation, he said, “As to what Señor Samson said, that he would like to know by whom, or how, or when my ass was stolen, I say in reply that the …
Carrasco and Don Quixote discuss the promised second part, the author’s diligence in searching for it, and Don Quixote resolves to depart soon, planning a secret farewell and receiving guidance about beginning the next quest at Zaragoza.
“Is there anything else to correct in the history, señor bachelor?” asked Don Quixote. “No doubt there is,” replied he; “but not anything that will be of the same importance as those I have mentioned.” “Does the author promise a second part at all?” said Don Quixote. “He does promise one,” replied Samson; “but he says he has not found it, nor does he know who has got it; and we cannot say whether it will appear or…
After the household laments, Don Quixote and Sancho spend three days preparing, then at night leave with supplies toward El Toboso while Samson Carrasco accompanies them briefly.
knew a friend of his who had it would not refuse it to him, though it was more dingy with rust and mildew than bright and clean like burnished steel. The curses which both housekeeper and niece poured out on the bachelor were past counting; they tore their hair, they clawed their faces, and in the style of the hired mourners that were once in fashion, they raised a lamentation over the departure of their master and …
Sancho urges Don Quixote to leave El Toboso before daylight and hide in a nearby forest while he searches for Dulcinea in the daytime and proposes a plan for Don Quixote to meet her safely.
“May be so,” replied the lad; “God be with you, for here comes the daylight;” and without waiting for any more of his questions, he whipped on his mules. Sancho, seeing his master downcast and somewhat dissatisfied, said to him, “Señor, daylight will be here before long, and it will not do for us to let the sun find us in the street; it will be better for us to quit the city, and for your worship to hide in some for…
After Don Quixote helps the defeated knight rise and Tom Cecial questions Sancho, both men keep believing the illusion, then the pair parts ways and Don Quixote and Sancho resume their journey to Saragossa.
it,” the crippled knight; “let me rise, I entreat you; if, indeed, the shock of my fall will allow me, for it has left me in a sorry plight enough.” Don Quixote helped him to rise, with the assistance of his squire Tom Cecial; from whom Sancho never took his eyes, and to whom he put questions, the replies to which furnished clear proof that he was really and truly the Tom Cecial he said; but the impression made on S…
Sancho Panza parts from Ricote at night, telling him it is time to continue their journey toward where Sancho will find Don Quixote.
it would be a bad business for both of them; but now let me be off, friend Ricote, for I want to reach where my master Don Quixote is to-night.” “God be with thee, brother Sancho,” said Ricote; “my comrades are beginning to stir, and it is time, too, for us to continue our journey;” and then they both embraced, and Sancho mounted Dapple, and Ricote leant upon his staff, and so they parted. p54e.jpg (40K)