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“Whoever told you, valiant Knight of the Rueful Countenance, that I had undergone any change or transformation did not tell you the truth, for I am the same as I was yesterday. It is true that certain strokes of good fortune, that have given me more than I could have hoped for, have made some alteration in me; but I have not therefore ceased to be what I was before, or to entertain the same desire I have had all through of availing myself of the might of your valiant and invincible arm.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote · insight
“Hence it must appear, that objections to the particular modification of the federal power of regulating elections will, in substance, apply with equal force to the modification of the like power in the constitution of this State;” Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison, The Federalist Papers · insight
“Thus then it happened with regard to these things; and these were the first Persians who came from Asia to Hellas, and for the reason which has been mentioned these were sent as spies.” Herodotus, The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 · observation
“he therefore set himself resolutely on the side of the old town, the established town, in which his lot was cast” James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Volume 1 · observation
“No, no! I am against the dockers; I am a Plymouth-man. Rogues! let them die of thirst. They shall not have a drop!” James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Volume 1 · vivid
“And with that word I saw the tears run very plentifully down his face; and so they did down mine too, I assure you.” Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year · vivid
“They eat and drink out of vessels of earth or glass, which make an agreeable appearance, though formed of brittle materials; while they make their chamber-pots and close-stools of gold and silver, and that not only in their public halls but in their private houses.” Thomas More, Saint, Utopia · wit
“The like occasion caused the Romans to devise their law *Agraria*: but the rich, not liking of it, and the covetous, utterly condemning it as rigorous and unprofitable, never ceased to practise disturbance till it was quite abolished.” Jean Froissart, Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed · insight
“In Love's City Enters, finds but Room for One, And but in Oneness Union.” Omar Khayyām, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál · precept
While traveling from Baltimore toward Philadelphia, Douglass faces dangers at Maryland and state borders, ferries at Havre de Grace, recognition by Captain McGowan and a German blacksmith, and especially fears Wilmington.
me, even in my sailor “rig,” and report me to the conductor, who would then subject me to a closer examination, which I knew well would be fatal to me. Though I was not a murderer fleeing from justice, I felt perhaps quite as miserable as such a criminal. The train was moving at a very high rate of speed for that epoch of railroad travel, but to my anxious mind it was moving far too slowly. Minutes were hours, and h…
Douglass contrasts New Bedford’s anti-slavery reputation with racial exclusions: he is denied skilled work on a whaling ship despite Mr. Rodney French’s initial offer, and later notes segregated lecture access for Black residents until abolitionists intervene.
work, or more of it, in the same space of time on the plantation for Covey, the negro-breaker, than I did for myself in these earliest years of my freedom. Notwithstanding the just and humane sentiment of New Bedford three and forty years ago, the place was not entirely free from race and color prejudice. The good influence of the Roaches, Rodmans, Arnolds, Grinnells, and Robesons did not pervade all classes of its …
Odysseus and his men reach Laertes’ farm in Ithaca; after ordering Telemachus and the servants to kill a pig, Odysseus tests whether his father recognizes him by speaking as a stranger while Laertes gardens alone.
the best pig that you can find for dinner. Meanwhile I want to see whether my father will know me, or fail to recognise me after so long an absence.” He then took off his armour and gave it to Eumaeus and Philoetius, who went straight on to the house, while he turned off into the vineyard to make trial of his father. As he went down into the great orchard, he did not see Dolius, nor any of his sons nor of the other …
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…
Athene appears in Ithaca disguised as Mentes at the palace entrance, where she finds the wooers feasting and arranging entertainments; Telemachus welcomes her as a stranger while the household prepares the meal.
and to sandy Pylos to seek tidings of his dear father’s return, if peradventure he may hear thereof and that so he may be had in good report among men.” She spake and bound beneath her feet her lovely golden sandals that wax not old, and bare her alike over the wet sea and over the limitless land, swift as the breath of the wind. And she seized her doughty spear, shod with sharp bronze, weighty and huge and strong, …
Athene as Mentes claims to be visiting Temesa for copper and iron, advises Telemachus to pursue news of Odysseus, predicts Odysseus’s eventual return from his iron-binding captivity, and suggests Telemachus’s resemblance to Odysseus.
newcomer, or whether thou art a guest of the house, seeing that many were the strangers that came to our home, for that *he* too had voyaged much among men.” Then the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, answered him: “Yea now, I will plainly tell thee all. I avow me to be Mentes, son of wise Anchialus, and I bear rule among the Taphians, lovers of the oar. And now am I come to shore, as thou seest, with ship and crew, sailin…
Hamilton argues that if election locations are made inconvenient, distant voters will lose influence, so New York’s election-by-counties model shows the same liberty risks as centralized federal election regulation.
men, that if the public liberty should ever be the victim of the ambition of the national rulers, the power under examination, at least, will be guiltless of the sacrifice. If those who are inclined to consult their jealousy only, would exercise it in a careful inspection of the several State constitutions, they would find little less room for disquietude and alarm, from the latitude which most of them allow in resp…
Ilioneus explains that Troy’s wanderers reached Latium by divine command after storms and war, seeking permission and settlement for their banished gods, offering sacred relics from Priam and Troy.
From Tuscan Coritum he claim’d his birth; But after, when exempt from mortal earth, From thence ascended to his kindred skies, A god, and, as a god, augments their sacrifice.” He said. Ilioneus made this reply: “O king, of Faunus’ royal family! Nor wintry winds to Latium forc’d our way, Nor did the stars our wand’ring course betray. Willing we sought your shores; and, hither bound, The …
A narrator wanders from Bow toward Bromley, Blackwall, and the water-stairs, where he meets a poor waterman describing shuttered, mostly dead houses and his own family’s sickness.
my curiosity in that point, I turned away over the fields from Bow to Bromley, and down to Blackwall to the stairs which are there for landing or taking water. Here I saw a poor man walking on the bank, or sea-wall, as they call it, by himself. I walked a while also about, seeing the houses all shut up. At last I fell into some talk, at a distance, with this poor man; first I asked him how people d…
After returning to Rome, Caius lives near the market, pushes his remaining laws, and clashes with consul Fannius’s expulsion of non-Romans; he issues an edict to allies, but fails to back a friend in prison and blocks gladiator scaffolds.
Livius appeased and mitigated this perverseness and animosity, by his profession that he had done nothing in favor and for the benefit of the commons, without their advice and approbation. But the greatest credit which Drusus got for kindness and justice towards the people was, that he never seemed to propose any law for his own sake, or his own advantage; he committed the charge of seeing the colonies rightly settl…
Sancho returns to the road toward El Toboso, hesitates at the inn where Don Quixote’s blanket incident happened, and is recognized by the curate and barber (his former village clergyman and barber).
know already that what he chiefly did was to pray and commend himself to God; but what am I to do for a rosary, for I have not got one?” And then it occurred to him how he might make one, and that was by tearing a great strip off the tail of his shirt which hung down, and making eleven knots on it, one bigger than the rest, and this served him for a rosary all the time he was there, during which he repeated countles…
Don Fernando proposes stopping the quarrel and traveling the next day, and new arrivals enter: a Moorish-looking man with a veiled woman later identified as a Christian-in-waiting, Lela Zoraida/Maria, with a captive interpreter.
not force a way, and with it, before many days are over, I will bring your enemy’s head to the ground and place on yours the crown of your kingdom.” Don Quixote said no more, and waited for the reply of the princess, who aware of Don Fernando’s determination to carry on the deception until Don Quixote had been conveyed to his home, with great ease of manner and gravity made answer, “Whoever told you, valiant Knight …
On the overland route, Darwin describes Indians’ reverence for a sacred thorny tree (Walleechu) with offerings and bones, his reflections on why such a landmark matters, and a night in the open countryside with Gauchos hunting a cow.
of peace he had witnessed this scene, and that he and others used to wait till the Indians had passed by, for the sake of stealing from Walleechu the offerings. The Gauchos think that the Indians consider the tree as the god itself, but it seems far more probable that they regard it as the altar. The only cause which I can imagine for this choice, is its being a landmark in a dangerous passage. The Sierra de la Ven…
Two days later Darwin rides toward the harbour with a vigilant companion who fears hidden hunters are Indians, but they prove to be Major’s son’s female relatives hunting ostrich eggs.
are well known to contain much soda, the power of decomposing the muriate? Does the black fetid mud, abounding with organic matter, yield the sulphur and ultimately the sulphuric acid? Two days afterwards I again rode to the harbour: when not far from our destination, my companion, the same man as before, spied three people hunting on horseback. He immediately dismounted, and watching them intently, said, "They don…
Darwin and Mr. King ride from San Carlos across Chiloé to Cucao, describing the log road, travel without firearms, forest obstacles, and Indian guiding methods by the sun.
entire eastern coast, and the upraised recent shells along more than 2000 miles on the western coast, show in how equable and connected a manner the elevatory forces have acted. Captain Fitz Roy being anxious that some bearings should be taken on the outer coast of Chiloe, it was planned that Mr. King and myself should ride to Castro, and thence across the island to the Capella de Cucao, situated on the west coast. …
The text defends communists against charges about women’s community and national differences, arguing bourgeois marriage and prostitution already reflect shared women, and proletarian emancipation requires unity of leading countries.
which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists. The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial. Our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives. Bourgeois marriage is in realit…
A long scholarly note discusses “desert” mythology and the spiritual dangers of wilderness, citing Central Asian beliefs, Chinese travel accounts, and stories of demons and burning winds.
(*N. et E.* XIV. 477; *H. de la Ville de Khotan*, 63–66; _Klap. Tabl. Historiques*, p. 182; *Proc. R. G. S._ XVI. 243.) [Dutreuil de Rhins and Grenard took the road from Khotan to Charchan; they left Khotan on the 4th May, 1893, passed Kiria, Nia, and instead of going direct to Charchan through the desert, they passed Kara Say at the foot of the Altyn tâgh, a route three days longer than the other, but one w…
Further ethnological notes discuss Chinese classifications of frontier peoples (Man-tzŭ, Si-fan, Lolo, Tibetan tribes), citing multiple 19th-century scholars and describing where these groups live in southwestern China.
of Li-kiang fu, and coming south of the Kin-sha Kiang even to the east of Ta-li. Of these are told such loose tales as Polo tells of *Tebet* and *Caindu*. [In the *Topography of the Yun-nan Province* (edition of 1836) there is a catalogue of 141 classes of aborigines, each with a separate name and illustration, without any attempt to arrive at a broader classification. Mr. Bourne has been led to the conviction…
The editor cautions that ethnological conclusions are uncertain because Chinese and European labels (Man-tzŭ, Lolo, Si-fan) overlap and shift between different groups, producing naming ambiguity.
V. p. 329; *E. H. Parker, The Muong Language, China Review*, I. 1891, p. 267; *P. Lefèvre-Pontalis, Etudes sur quelques alphabets et vocab. Thais, T’oung Pao_, III. pp. 39–64.)—H. C.] These ethnological matters have to be handled cautiously, for there is great ambiguity in the nomenclature. Thus *Man-tzŭ* is often used generically for aborigines, and the *Lolos* of Richthofen are called Man-tzŭ by Garnier and …
He explains that humanity-based sentiments extend to all mankind, so actions across distant times and places can be judged, unlike self-interested passions which create indifference toward most people.
the same event or object satisfy both; but the humanity of one man is the humanity of every one, and the same object touches this passion in all human creatures. But the sentiments, which arise from humanity, are not only the same in all human creatures, and produce the same approbation or censure; but they also comprehend all human creatures; nor is there any one whose conduct or character is not, by their means, a…
He explains how Sparta’s king-and-limited-senate unity endured due to Lycurgus’ property equality, limited offices, and denial of foreigners, and he contrasts this with Rome’s opposite choices.
as, or greater than that of the “Plebeians.” For these reasons, therefore, it was possible for Venice to make her constitution what it is, and to maintain it without divisions. Sparta, again, being governed, as I have said, by a king and a limited senate, was able to maintain herself for the long period she did, because, from the country being thinly inhabited and further influx of population forbidden, and from the…
Mill answers objections that Hare’s system destroys local representation by arguing that towns and counties should be represented through the people living there, and he dismisses claims that English voters would reject it without trial.
But I believe that the English democracy would as yet be content with protection against the class legislation of others, without claiming the power to exercise it in their turn. Among the ostensible objectors to Mr. Hare's scheme, some profess to think the plan unworkable; but these, it will be found, are generally people who have barely heard of it, or have given it a very slight and cursory examination. Others ar…
Boswell recounts an anecdote from Plymouth where Samuel Johnson sided with the older town against dock workers (“dockers”), opposing their request for water from the city conduit.
[Page 379: An enemy of the Dockers. Ætat 53.] Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom I was obliged for my information concerning this excursion, mentions a very characteristical anecdote of Johnson while at Plymouth. Having observed that in consequence of the Dock-yard a new town[1120] had arisen about two miles off as a rival to the old; and knowing from his sagacity, and just observation of human nature, that it is certain …
He continues naming sources for observations in Africa and the Americas, notes difficulties with enslaved Black people because of white contact, and then turns to incidental travel facts and facial-muscle diagrams.
botanical studies, has been brought to bear on our present subject. For Ceylon I am much indebted to the Rev. S. O. Glenie for answers to some of my queries. Turning to Africa, I have been unfortunate with respect to the negroes, though Mr. Winwood Reade aided me as far as lay in his power. It would have been comparatively easy to have obtained information in regard to the negro slaves in America; but as they have l…
Arriving in Florence, Cellini is welcomed by Duke Alessandro and then travels toward Venice with the sculptor Tribolino, aided by Cosimo de’ Medici, passing through Bologna and Ferrara with tensions among exiles.
spirit to lay hands on me, cried out: “We shall meet another time.” I answered: “I am always glad to meet honest men and those who show themselves as such.” When we parted, I went to his lordship’s palace, and found he had not sent for me. When I returned to my shop, the Corsican informed me, through an intimate friend of his and mine, that I need not be on my guard against him, since he wished to be my good brother…
Thumbling rides in the horse’s ear to guide a cart into the forest, attracts two strangers who try to buy him, escapes by hiding in mouse-holes, and then overhears thieves plotting to steal a pastor’s treasure.
When the time came, the mother harnessed the horse, and placed Thumbling in its ear, and then the little creature cried, "Gee up, gee up!" Then it went quite properly as if with its master, and the cart went the right way into the forest. It so happened that just as he was turning a corner, and the little one was crying, "Gee up," two strange men came towards him. "My word!" said one of them. "What is this? There is…
Utopians contrast their custom with the Anemolians’ vainglorious pomp: the visitors mistake Utopian indifference to luxury, arrive loaded with gold and silk, and later abandon their finery after seeing how Utopians interpret it.
I have the more reason to apprehend because, if I had not seen it myself, I could not have been easily persuaded to have believed it upon any man’s report. “It is certain that all things appear incredible to us in proportion as they differ from known customs; but one who can judge aright will not wonder to find that, since their constitution differs so much from ours, their value of gold and silver should be measure…
Jacob sends his sons to buy grain in Egypt, retaining Benjamin; Joseph recognizes them but tests them by accusing them of spying, prompting Reuben’s defense that they are Jacob’s sons seeking food amid grief and famine.
for our family, to Benjamin, our youngest brother; and if thou sendest to our house, thou mayst learn whether we are guilty of the least falsehood in what we say." 4. And thus did Reubel endeavor to persuade Joseph to have a better opinion of them. But when he had learned from them that Jacob was alive, and that his brother was not destroyed by them, he for the present put them in prison, as intending to examine mor…
After Alexander’s settlement, Samaritans at Shechem seek to be treated as Jews, but Alexander demands clarification and later allows measures only when properly identified, while Samaritans’ later refuge under Gerizim is described.
make a man more precious than fine gold, even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir," Isaiah 13:12, which character makes Xenophon's most excellent history of him very credible.] 2 (return) [ This leave to build Jerusalem, sect. 3, and this epistle of Cyrus to Sisinnes and Sathrabuzanes, to the same purpose, are most unfortunately omitted in all our copies but this best and completest copy of Josephus; and by such om…
As the ship nears Brunhild’s castle, Gunther sees many maidens in the casements and feels mournful because they are strangers; this ends with their approach to Brunhild’s court.
376 Their shields of golden color / were borne unto the strand, And all their trusty armor / was ready brought to hand. They bade their horses bring them: / they would at last depart. --Thereat did fairest women / weep with sad foreboding heart. 377 Down from lofty casement / looked many a winsome maid, As ship and sail together / by stirring breeze were swayed. Upon the Rhine they found them, / the warriors full …
Gunther asks Siegfried to identify the proud maidens watching from Brunhild’s hall, and Siegfried directs him to Brunhild, whom the strangers’ women then display to the visitors.
390 He asked then of Siegfried, / who bare him company: "Know'st thou aught of the maidens, / who the same may be, Gazing yonder downward / upon us on the tide? Howe'er is named their master, / minded are they high in pride." 391 Then spake the valiant Siegfried: / "Now thither shalt thou spy Unseen among the ladies, / then not to me deny Which, wert thou free in choosing, / thou'dst take to be thy queen." "That w…
In a hall at Worms, Burgundians learn that a celebrated squadron has arrived and ask where King Gunther is, then Gunther calls for Hagan to identify the strangers, who are linked to Siegfried of Netherland.
XXXIV "Affairs of high concernment this squadron hither bring, So, whoso knows, straight tell me where I may find your king, The wide-renowned Gunther, who reigns in Burgundy." Then one who near was standing thus answer'd courteously, XXXV "If you would find the monarch, you need not long to wait; In yonder hall at leisure myself I left him late Begirt with all his warriors; there you may feast…
Hylas goes to a spring called Pegae and is abducted by a nymph, while Polyphemus reports the loss and Heracles searches in fury; the Argonauts depart, debate whether to return, and are later corrected by Glaucus’s warning.
honour of the goddess on the Mount of Bears, singing the praises of Rhea most venerable; but at dawn the winds had ceased and they rowed away from the island. Thereupon a spirit of contention stirred each chieftain, who should be the last to leave his oar. For all around the windless air smoothed the swirling waves and lulled the sea to rest. And they, trusting in the calm, mightily drove the ship forward; and as sh…
The Argonauts’ arrival is framed as a storm-driven shipwreck that brings Phrixus’s sons and the Argo to a wooded island near the land of the Mossynoeci, where the bewildered arrivals ask for aid.
What then was the purpose of Phineus in bidding the divine band of heroes land there? Or what kind of help was about to meet their desire? The sons of Phrixus were faring towards the city of Orchomenus from Aea, coming from Cytaean Aeetes, on board a Colchian ship, to win the boundless wealth of their father; for he, when dying, had enjoined this journey upon them. And lo, on that day they were very near that island…
Pietro’s lost companion, a damsel, wanders through the forest all day, then reaches a remote cottage where an aged couple shelter her overnight despite fear of marauders.
from that risk, his misery and his anxiety on account of the damsel would not have suffered him to sleep, kept watch, sighing and weeping and cursing his evil luck. Now the damsel, who, as we said before, had fled she knew not whither, allowing her nag to carry her whithersoever he would, strayed so far into the forest that she lost sight of the place where she had entered it, and spent the whole day just as Pietro …
The Christian host mistakenly believes Messer Torello d’Istria is dead due to a burial confusion with a Provence knight, causing extensive mourning in Lombardy; after months, Torello’s wife agrees to remarriage only after her waiting term expires, then Torello hears a report from a Genoese voyage and despairs.
earnestly besought one of the ambassadors, whom he knew, to see that the letter reached the hands of the Abbot of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, who was his uncle. Now, such being the posture of Messer Torello's affairs, it befell one day that, while he talked with Saladin of his hawks, he smiled; whereby his mouth shaped itself in a fashion, of which Saladin had taken particular note, while he was at Pavia. And so, reca…
Gulliver, stranded on the shore, walks inland to find “savages” and then encounters hostile, goat-bearded, tailless, clawed animals with humanlike features that drive him into a tree.
the first place where they could discover land.” They pushed off immediately, advising me to make haste for fear of being overtaken by the tide, and so bade me farewell. In this desolate condition I advanced forward, and soon got upon firm ground, where I sat down on a bank to rest myself, and consider what I had best do. When I was a little refreshed, I went up into the country, resolving to deliver myself to the f…
The introductory notes summarize Tacitus’s life, his major works, and why “Germany” is valuable for understanding the tribes who became the ancestors of modern Teutonic peoples under Roman-era Mediterranean contact.
TACITUS ON GERMANY Translated by Thomas Gordon PREPARER'S NOTE This text was prepared from a 1910 edition, published by P. F. Collier & Son Company, New York. INTRODUCTORY NOTE The dates of the birth and death of Tacitus are uncertain, but it is probable that he was born about 54 A. D. and died after 117. He was a contemporary and friend of the younger Pliny, who addressed to him some of his most famous epi…
Even after the captain moves across the water to Ratcliff, his reputation follows and he is blocked by women seeking fortune; the lady counters with a staged wealthy admirer, forcing the captain back to submissive, evidence-based courting.
and he could try nowhere but he was reproached with his pride, and that he pretended not to give the women leave to inquire into his character, and the like. Well, by this time he began to be sensible of his mistake; and having alarmed all the women on that side of the water, he went over to Ratcliff, and got access to some of the ladies there; but though the young women there too were, according to the fate of the …
After days of rationing at sea toward the Gambia or Senegal and the Cape Verde islands, Robinson sees black, naked locals, avoids going ashore, and trades by signs for dried meat and corn delivered to the boat.
After this stop, we made on to the southward continually for ten or twelve days, living very sparingly on our provisions, which began to abate very much, and going no oftener to the shore than we were obliged to for fresh water. My design in this was to make the river Gambia or Senegal, that is to say anywhere about the Cape de Verde, where I was in hopes to meet with some European ship; and if I did not, I knew not …
When a leopard is chased into the sea, Robinson kills one with his gun, the locals recover it with rope, and they later bring him skin, provisions, and water, demonstrating cross-cultural exchange.
brought it to the shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board, and then came close to us again. We made signs of thanks to them, for we had nothing to make them amends; but an opportunity offered that very instant to oblige them wonderfully; for while we were lying by the shore came two mighty creatures, one pursuing the other (as we took it) with great fury from the mounta…
After further provisioning and trading, Robinson avoids shore for eleven days, identifies Cape de Verde and its islands at sea, sees land to seaward, and prepares to signal an approaching Portuguese ship.
a most curious leopard, spotted, and fine to an admirable degree; and the negroes held up their hands with admiration, to think what it was I had killed him with. The other creature, frighted with the flash of fire and the noise of the gun, swam on shore, and ran up directly to the mountains from whence they came; nor could I, at that distance, know what it was. I found quickly the negroes wished to eat the flesh of…
At Taras in Italy, the Tarentine king Aristophilides detains the Persians as spies, Demokedes escapes back to Croton, and the Persians fail to learn more of Hellas and return to Asia.
that Demokedes was urgent for this marriage, spending much money to further it, in order that Dareios might see that he was held in honour also in his own country. 138. The Persians however, after they had put out from Croton, were cast away with their ships in Iapygia; and as they were remaining there as slaves, Gillos a Tarentine exile rescued them and brought them back to king Dareios. In return for this Dareios …
After returning from many weary miles, Catullus bids farewell to true comrades and then addresses Porcius and Piso’s men as rogues and thieves who should not seek invitations.
VIRGINS. Hesper, moveth in heaven a light more tyrannous ever? 20 Thou from a mother's arms canst wrest her daughter asunder, Wrest from a mother's arms her daughter woefully clinging, Then to the burning youth his virgin beauty deliver. Foes in a new-sack'd town, when wrought they crueller ever? Hymen O Hymenaeus, O Hymen come Hymenaeus. 25 YOUTHS. Hespe…
Shipwrecked sailors sail from Peru toward China and Japan via the South Sea, lose provisions in storms, then sight an unknown land and are warned off by its people and told not to land.
that as in the beginning he discovered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so he would now discover land to us, that we might not perish. And it came to pass that the next day about evening we saw within a kenning before us, towards the north, as it were thick clouds, which did put us in some hope of land; knowing how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown; and might have islands, or continents…
Jemima continues her story through street prostitution, police extortion, returns to servitude, serves a witty older gentleman near Hampstead, and begins reading and moral self-improvement.
felt for my still more brutal master. I have since read in novels of the blandishments of seduction, but I had not even the pleasure of being enticed into vice. “I shall not,” interrupted Jemima, “lead your imagination into all the scenes of wretchedness and depravity, which I was condemned to view; or mark the different stages of my debasing misery. Fate dragged me through the very kennels of society: I was still a…
It defines three classes of poverty in England—impotent poor, casualty poor, and “thriftless” poor (including vagrants and criminals)—and describes the seasonal movement of rogues.
to and fro over all the realm, chiefly keeping the champaign soils in summer to avoid the scorching heat, and the woodland grounds in winter to eschew the blustering winds. For the first two sorts (that is to say, the poor by impotence and poor by casualty, which are the true poor indeed, and for whom the Word doth bind us to make some daily provision), there is order taken throughout every parish in the realm that …
Franklin, dirty and nearly broke, buys bread in Philadelphia, walks to Chestnut Street and the Quaker meetinghouse near the Market, sleeps there, asks Quakers for lodging, and is temporarily taken in at the Crooked Billet.
taking it. A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little. Then I walked up the street, gazing about till near the market-house I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in Second-street, and ask'd for bisket, intending…
Parmeno complains he wasted the day waiting for Callidemides at the Myconos citadel, checking passersby and failing to find him; he then sees Bacchis coming out of the neighbor’s house.
*Enter PARMENO, moving along with difficulty.* PAR. (*to himself.*) Upon my faith, my master does assuredly think my labor of little value; to have sent me for nothing, where I have been sitting the whole day to no purpose, waiting at the citadel for Callidemides, his landlord at Myconos. And so, while sitting there to-day, {like} a fool, as each person came by, I accosted him:-- “Young man, just tell me, pray, are …
Thais and Phaedria reconcile tensions after Phaedria was shut out, as Thais explains her backstory: a stolen Samian girl raised as a sister, sold at Rhodes, and the soldier’s attempt to buy and keep her.
*Enter THAIS.* THAIS. Ah me! I fear lest Phaedria take offense And think I meant it other than I did, That he was not admitted yesterday. (*To herself, not seeing them.*) PHAED. I tremble, Parmeno, and freeze with horror. PAR. Be of good cheer! approach yon fire--she'll warm you. THAIS. Who's there? my Phaedria? Why did you stand here? Why not directly enter? PAR. Not one word Of having shut him out! THAIS. Why…
The Princess and Pekuah, seeking closer knowledge of the astronomer, discuss how to visit without deception; they persuade Imlac to arrange a visit as students, dress magnificently, and win the astronomer’s attention through Pekuah’s adventure story.
THE PRINCESS AND PEKUAH VISIT THE ASTRONOMER. THE Princess and Pekuah, having talked in private of Imlac’s astronomer, thought his character at once so amiable and so strange that they could not be satisfied without a nearer knowledge, and Imlac was requested to find the means of bringing them together. This was somewhat difficult. The philosopher had never received any visits from women, though he lived in a city…
Salámán sails from the seashore to an enchanted island garden with Absál, forgetting court life and worldly duties, then later Wámik and others voice mystical devotion that longs to flee humanity for a solitary union with Azra.
XIX. Six days Salámán on the Camel rode, And then Remembrance of foregone Reproach Abode not by him; and upon the Seventh He halted on the Seashore, and beheld An Ocean boundless as the Heaven above, That, reaching its Circumference from Káf To Káf, down to the Back of Gau and Mahi Descended, and its Stars were Creatures' Eyes. The Face of it was as it were a Range Of moving Mount…
Erasmus visits England and meets notable scholars and churchmen, is tutorship while traveling back toward Italy, loses goods at Dover, and later is said to honor England and learn from its literary culture.
Plague returning there periodically for many Years, he was obliged every Year to return into his own Country. At length it raging all the Year long, he retir'd to *Louvain*. After this he visited *England*, going along with a young Gentleman, to whom he was Tutor, who, as he says himself, was rather his Friend than his Patron. In *England* he was received with universal Respect; and, as he tells us himself in his Li…