Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 81 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 53173 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46 man 24 Mr. 22 God 18 good 17 time 16 like 13 Mrs. 12 look 11 great 11 Miss 10 day 10 London 10 John 9 thing 9 nature 8 world 8 life 8 England 7 come 7 Socrates 7 King 6 little 6 hand 6 eye 6 Tarzan 6 Street 6 Sir 6 Dr. 6 Captain 5 work 5 thought 5 ape 5 Watson 5 Sherlock 5 New 5 Lord 5 Jane 5 Holmes 5 Carter 4 way 4 mind 4 head 4 Numa 4 Henry 4 Helium 4 Clayton 3 ship 3 power 3 old 3 new Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 16520 man 8737 time 6165 day 5903 hand 5738 thing 5210 way 5120 eye 4157 head 4103 life 3740 face 3631 night 3605 nothing 3265 room 3161 word 3078 place 3005 moment 3000 house 2989 side 2892 woman 2834 friend 2743 mind 2740 year 2633 world 2598 one 2585 foot 2462 something 2459 boy 2425 heart 2386 door 2247 people 2221 hour 2197 name 2059 end 2013 arm 2010 body 2007 girl 1970 water 1956 sea 1955 part 1934 child 1928 matter 1927 work 1912 morning 1906 thought 1844 ape 1785 ship 1763 mother 1757 nature 1745 voice 1690 anything Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 6366 Mr. 3200 Tarzan 2398 Mrs. 1917 Holmes 1793 Miss 1286 God 1137 Tom 1100 Soc 1078 Sir 932 Captain 920 John 875 Martin 874 Kim 851 London 824 Micawber 775 Jim 762 Watson 761 Peggotty 649 thou 647 England 622 Elinor 615 Lord 606 Clayton 604 Wrenn 602 Jane 589 ye 576 Rodney 561 Marianne 546 Dr. 522 Anne 510 Dora 505 Catherine 497 Ahab 490 Professor 480 Lucy 476 Copperfield 473 Street 467 Phil 465 Helium 460 Korak 456 Traddles 456 Meriem 449 Wolf 446 Lady 446 English 431 Larsen 430 Carthoris 422 Van 420 Carter 419 Colonel Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 82819 i 63231 he 53896 it 37995 you 22664 him 21103 me 19594 they 19231 she 17062 we 12258 them 9380 her 6206 us 4067 himself 2538 myself 1253 themselves 1240 herself 1027 itself 751 one 727 yourself 432 mine 406 ourselves 336 thee 278 yours 254 ''em 214 his 134 ''s 110 hers 103 theirs 71 ours 70 ye 58 i- 51 it- 50 thyself 41 em 31 ay 25 me- 11 yourselves 11 oneself 8 he- 7 thy 5 thowt 5 isself 4 yuh 4 yerself 4 us- 4 l 4 hisself 3 whereof 3 we- 3 talkee Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 166776 be 65997 have 25693 do 20445 say 13362 see 12321 go 12107 come 11476 know 10103 make 7814 take 7552 think 6582 look 6528 get 5799 give 5784 find 5230 tell 4655 seem 4014 leave 3986 hear 3717 turn 3550 ask 3446 stand 3391 feel 3073 let 2946 call 2927 speak 2699 want 2637 keep 2552 lie 2535 put 2507 bring 2502 pass 2482 sit 2296 return 2259 fall 2255 begin 2233 follow 2216 live 2113 hold 2073 run 2070 become 2027 cry 1952 believe 1904 mean 1812 try 1781 draw 1748 show 1702 wish 1629 wait 1629 understand Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 39637 not 14727 so 10301 then 8735 now 8686 up 8568 more 7819 very 7272 out 6702 good 6624 little 6596 great 6541 only 6286 other 6169 well 5186 down 5185 never 5176 as 5150 long 4950 much 4747 old 4712 again 4703 here 4642 first 4628 own 4510 there 4370 too 4104 back 4061 away 3695 just 3672 last 3605 even 3406 still 3399 most 3321 ever 3137 such 3109 same 3088 many 3082 all 2827 far 2737 on 2730 young 2671 once 2655 off 2624 always 2556 yet 2457 in 2267 few 2245 right 2228 soon 2198 new Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1249 good 1119 least 649 most 426 great 211 high 203 bad 180 near 164 slight 113 small 91 eld 79 large 73 fine 71 strong 71 dear 63 Most 61 low 56 deep 54 early 53 old 53 late 44 happy 40 faint 35 young 35 wise 33 noble 32 big 30 strange 30 long 29 rich 28 simple 27 j 25 manif 23 keen 23 bright 23 brave 22 close 21 short 20 hard 19 true 19 sweet 19 pure 19 farth 19 common 18 topmost 18 mighty 18 mere 18 innermost 18 easy 18 bitter 17 wild Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2750 most 191 well 145 least 4 worst 4 hard 3 soon 3 early 2 youngest 2 quick 2 oftenest 2 lookest 2 long 2 lest 2 latest 1 weli 1 warmest 1 vor 1 sharpest 1 severest 1 near 1 mightiest 1 innermost 1 immodest 1 horriblest 1 honestest 1 holdest 1 highest 1 headforemost 1 handiest 1 greatest 1 deepest 1 close 1 clearest 1 bloodiest 1 blackest 1 belongest 1 a''most Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 81 infomotions.com Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 81 http://infomotions.com/alex/ Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 tarzan did not 18 men do not 16 eyes went wide 16 one does not 13 man is not 13 tarzan was not 12 men did not 12 nothing is more 10 days went by 10 eyes were wide 10 things are not 9 heart stood still 9 man did not 9 one is not 8 man does not 7 man had ever 7 man was not 7 world is not 6 eyes were open 6 face was white 6 heart was not 6 life is not 6 man was too 6 men were not 6 mind made up 6 mind was so 6 room was empty 5 day is not 5 face did not 5 face was very 5 face went white 5 head went high 5 man is more 5 men are not 5 men are too 5 nothing was ever 5 tarzan was still 5 thing is not 5 thing was so 5 time went on 4 days gone by 4 eyes were closed 4 eyes were not 4 eyes were red 4 face was as 4 face was so 4 hand is worth 4 hands were full 4 heart was full 4 heart went out Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 man had no intention 2 time was not ripe 1 boy had no intention 1 boy was not close 1 boys were not able 1 day is no nearer 1 day is not so 1 day is not yet 1 eyes did not again 1 eyes see no more 1 eyes were no longer 1 eyes were not good 1 eyes were not loath 1 face did not change,- 1 face was no sign 1 face was not as 1 face was not handsome 1 feet made no sound 1 feet was not deadly 1 feet were no longer 1 feet were not so 1 friend ''s not very 1 friend had not many 1 friend has not yet 1 friend took no step 1 friend was not intent 1 friends are not good 1 friends are not mine 1 friends find no difficulty 1 friends were not able 1 hands do not early 1 hands were not hard 1 heart had no room 1 heart is no island 1 heart is no longer 1 heart is not quite 1 heart is not totally 1 heart makes no account 1 heart was no room 1 heart was not alone 1 heart was not so 1 heart was not sorry 1 hearts are not stones 1 hearts were not so 1 house was not far 1 houses were not more 1 life are not less 1 life are not so 1 life be not death 1 life is no longer Sizes of items; 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"In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- alger_jr-cash-685 "I hope you will give me a little time before I decide about positions, boys," Frank said; "I want to consider a little." "What are you thinking of, Frank?" asked Mrs. Fowler, noticing the boy''s fixed look. "I wish you could stay with us all the time, Frank --you and Grace," said Sam one evening. "Then," said Frank, "if you are willing to board Grace for a while, I think I had better go to the city at once." "I''ve been thinking, Frank," said Jasper, the next morning, "that you might get the position as a cash-boy." "Good-evening, Mrs. Bradley," said Frank. "I think, Thomas," said Mrs. Bradley, "we won''t intrude on Mr. Wharton longer this evening. "By the way, Mrs. Bradley," said John Wade, "how came my uncle to engage that boy to read to him?" "Uncle," said John Wade, "you spoke of inviting Frank Fowler to occupy a room in the house. alger_jr-cast-690 Rodney came forward with the ease of a boy who was accustomed to good society, and said: "I shall be very happy to speak with him." About the middle of the afternoon, as Rodney was helping to unpack a crate of goods, the older boy whom he had already seen in the office below, walked up to him and said, "Is your name Ropes?" "You see, sir," said Mrs. McCarty in a tone of hesitation, "while you look like a perfect gentleman, I don''t know you, and I am not sure whether, in justice to Mr. Ropes, I ought to admit you to his room." After they were left alone Jefferson Pettigrew turned to Rodney and said, "Do you mind my leaving you a short time and calling at my uncle''s?" This Rodney said, thinking that if it were a thousand dollars he might be able to make it good to his friend Jefferson. alger_jr-errand-719 No one was there, as Phil''s first glance satisfied him, and he was disposed to hope that Mrs. Brent-he never called her mother--was out, but a thin, acid, measured voice from the sitting-room adjoining soon satisfied him that there was to be no reprieve. "Shall I tell Mrs. Brent I am going away?" Phil said to himself, "or shall I leave a note for her?" "Thank you; but I shall have money enough," answered Phil, who shrank from receiving any favor at the hands of Mrs. Brent. "I think country boys are very foolish to leave good homes in the country to seek places in the city," said Mrs. Pitkin sharply. "No doubt; I understand that," answered Mrs. Pitkin, in a tone so significant that Phil wondered whether she thought he had got into any trouble at home. "Jonas," said Mrs. Brent, bending toward her son, "if I choose to tell him that you are Philip, he won''t know the difference. austen-northanger-726 "I assure you," said she, "I would not stand up without your dear sister for all the world; for if I did we should certainly be separated the whole evening." Catherine accepted this kindness with gratitude, and they continued as they were for three minutes longer, when Isabella, who had been talking to James on the other side of her, turned again to his sister and whispered, "My dear creature, I am afraid I must leave you, your brother is so amazingly impatient to begin; I know you will not mind my going away, and I dare say John will be back in a moment, and then you may easily find me out." Catherine, though a little disappointed, had too much good nature to make any opposition, and the others rising up, Isabella had only time to press her friend''s hand and say, "Good-bye, my dear love," before they hurried off. austen-persuasion-724 She had never been staying there before, without being struck by it, or without wishing that other Elliots could have her advantage in seeing how unknown, or unconsidered there, were the affairs which at Kellynch Hall were treated as of such general publicity and pervading interest; yet, with all this experience, she believed she must now submit to feel that another lesson, in the art of knowing our own nothingness beyond our own circle, was become necessary for her; for certainly, coming as she did, with a heart full of the subject which had been completely occupying both houses in Kellynch for many weeks, she had expected rather more curiosity and sympathy than she found in the separate but very similar remark of Mr and Mrs Musgrove: "So, Miss Anne, Sir Walter and your sister are gone; and what part of Bath do you think they will settle in?" and this, without much waiting for an answer; or in the young ladies'' addition of, "I hope we shall be in Bath in the winter; but remember, papa, if we do go, we must be in a good situation: none of your Queen Squares for us!" or in the anxious supplement from Mary, of-"Upon my word, I shall be pretty well off, when you are all gone away to be happy at Bath!" austen-sense-723 She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes'' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; and it is a charming house, I assure you.--There is one remarkably pretty sitting room up stairs; of a nice comfortable size for constant use, and with modern furniture it would be delightful. Mrs. Jennings repeated her assurance that Mrs. Dashwood could spare them perfectly well; and Elinor, who now understood her sister, and saw to what indifference to almost every thing else she was carried by her eagerness to be with Willoughby again, made no farther direct opposition to the plan, and merely referred it to her mother''s decision, from whom however she scarcely expected to receive any support in her endeavour to prevent a visit, which she could not approve of for Marianne, and which on her own account she had particular reasons to avoid. bacon-essays-684 The things to be seen and observed are: the courts of princes, especially when they give audience to ambassadors; the courts of justice, while they sit and hear causes; and so of consistories ecclesiastic; the churches and monasteries, with the monuments which are therein extant; the walls and fortifications of cities, and towns, and so the heavens and harbors; antiquities and ruins; libraries; colleges, disputations, and lectures, where any are; shipping and navies; houses and gardens of state and pleasure, near great cities; armories; arsenals; magazines; exchanges; burses; warehouses; exercises of horsemanship, fencing, training of soldiers, and the like; comedies, such whereunto the better sort of persons do resort; treasuries of jewels and robes; cabinets and rarities; and, to conclude, whatsoever is memorable, in the places where they go. bacon-new-633 When the King had forbidden to all his people navigation into any part that was not under his crown, he made nevertheless this ordinance; that every twelve years there should be set forth out of this kingdom, two ships, appointed to several voyages; that in either of these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Saloman''s House, whose errand was only to give us knowledge of the affairs and state of those countries to which they were designed; and especially of the sciences, arts, manufactures, and inventions of all the world; and withal to bring unto us books, instruments, and patterns in every kind: that the ships, after they had landed the brethren, should return; and that the brethren should stay abroad till the new mission, the ships are not otherwise fraught than with store of victuals, and good quantity of treasure to remain with the brethren, for the buying of such things, and rewarding of such persons, as they should think fit. burroughs-at-698 At sight of me several of the savage creatures left off worrying the great brute to come slinking with bared fangs toward me, and as I turned to run toward the trees again to seek safety among the lower branches, I saw a number of the man-apes leaping and chattering in the foliage of the nearest tree. Sometimes I was not so sure but that I should have been more contented to know that Dian was here in Phutra, than to think of her at the mercy of Hooja the Sly One. Ghak, Perry, and I often talked together of possible escape, but the Sarian was so steeped in his lifelong belief that no one could escape from the Mahars except by a miracle, that he was not much aid to us--his attitude was of one who waits for the miracle to come to him. burroughs-beasts-699 Kaviri was only too glad to comply with any demands that the ape-man might make if only such compliance would hasten the departure of the horrid pack; but it was easier, he discovered, to promise men than to furnish them, for when his people learned his intentions those that had not already fled into the jungle proceeded to do so without loss of time, so that when Kaviri turned to point out those who were to accompany Tarzan, he discovered that he was the only member of his tribe left within the village. Tarzan did not like the appearance or manner of the fellow, who seemed, though friendly enough, to harbour a certain contempt for this half-naked white man who came with no followers and offered no presents; but he needed the rest and food that the village would afford him with less effort than the jungle, and so, as he knew no fear of man, beast, or devil, he curled himself up in the shadow of a hut and was soon asleep. burroughs-gods-715 Half a dozen great leaps brought me to the spot, and another instant saw me again in my stride in quick pursuit of the hideous monsters that were rapidly gaining on the fleeing warrior, but this time I grasped a mighty long-sword in my hand and in my heart was the old blood lust of the fighting man, and a red mist swam before my eyes and I felt my lips respond to my heart in the old smile that has ever marked me in the midst of the joy of battle. "It is said that occasionally some deluded victim of Barsoomian superstition will so far escape the clutches of the countless enemies that beset his path from the moment that he emerges from the subterranean passage through which the Iss flows for a thousand miles before it enters the Valley Dor as to reach the very walls of the Temple of Issus; but what fate awaits one there not even the Holy Therns may guess, for who has passed within those gilded walls never has returned to unfold the mysteries they have held since the beginning of time. burroughs-jungle-700 Tarzan knew that once the great bulls were aroused none of the jungle, not even Numa, the lion, was anxious to measure fangs with them, and that if all those of the tribe who chanced to be present today would charge, Sheeta, the great cat, would doubtless turn tail and run for his life. And just as Teeka sprang for the lower limb of a great tree, and Sheeta rose behind her in a long, sinuous leap, the coils of the ape-boy''s grass rope shot swiftly through the air, straightening into a long thin line as the open noose hovered for an instant above the savage head and the snarling jaws. At the ape-man''s side swung his long grass rope--the play-thing of yesterday, the weapon of today--and as Taug charged the second time, Tarzan slipped the coils over his head and deftly shook out the sliding noose as he again nimbly eluded the ungainly beast. burroughs-monster-701 Virginia took a keen delight in watching the Malays and lascars at their work, telling von Horn that she had to draw upon her imagination but little to picture herself a captive upon a pirate ship--the half naked men, the gaudy headdress, the earrings, and the fierce countenances of many of the crew furnishing only too realistically the necessary savage setting. As von Horn and Professor Maxon talked together in the laboratory before the upsetting of vat Number Thirteen, a grotesque and horrible creature had slunk from the low shed at the opposite side of the campong until it had crouched at the flimsy door of the building in which the two men conversed. Von Horn and Professor Maxon followed closely in Sing''s wake, the younger man horrified by the terrible possibilities that obtruded themselves into his imagination despite his every effort to assure himself that no harm could come to Virginia Maxon before they reached her. burroughs-princess-702 They did not molest us, and so Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, and John Carter, gentleman of Virginia, followed by the faithful Woola, passed through utter silence from the audience chamber of Lorquas Ptomel, Jed among the Tharks of Barsoom. "Because, John Carter," she replied, "nearly every planet and star having atmospheric conditions at all approaching those of Barsoom, shows forms of animal life almost identical with you and me; and, further, Earth men, almost without exception, cover their bodies with strange, unsightly pieces of cloth, and their heads with hideous contraptions the purpose of which we have been unable to conceive; while you, when found by the Tharkian warriors, were entirely undisfigured and unadorned. burroughs-return-704 Presently, as he sat there, the sudden feeling came over him that eyes were watching from behind, and the old instinct of the wild beast broke through the thin veneer of civilization, so that Tarzan wheeled about so quickly that the eyes of the young woman who had been surreptitiously regarding him had not even time to drop before the gray eyes of the ape-man shot an inquiring look straight into them. With shrieks of pain the men escaped into the hallway as quickly as they could; but even before the first one staggered, bleeding and broken, from the room, Rokoff had seen enough to convince him that Tarzan would not be the one to lie dead in that house this night, and so the Russian had hastened to a nearby den and telephoned the police that a man was committing murder on the third floor of Rue Maule, 27. burroughs-son-703 burroughs-tarzan-705 The Waziri gone, the Belgian summoned one of Achmet Zek''s trusted blacks to his tent, and dispatched him to watch for the departure of Tarzan, returning immediately to advise Werper of the event and the direction taken by the Englishman. For a time Werper hid behind one of the lesser boulders that were scattered over the top of the hill, but, seeing or hearing nothing of the Englishman, he crept from his place of concealment to undertake a systematic search of his surroundings, in the hope that he might discover the location of the treasure in ample time to make his escape before Tarzan returned, for it was the Belgian''s desire merely to locate the gold, that, after Tarzan had departed, he might come in safety with his followers and carry away as much as he could transport. burroughs-tarzan-714 The brilliant birds and the little monkeys had become accustomed to their new acquaintances, and as they had evidently never seen human beings before they presently, after their first fright had worn off, approached closer and closer, impelled by that strange curiosity which dominates the wild creatures of the forest and the jungle and the plain, so that within the first month several of the birds had gone so far as even to accept morsels of food from the friendly hands of the Claytons. Squatting upon his haunches on the table top in the cabin his father had built--his smooth, brown, naked little body bent over the book which rested in his strong slender hands, and his great shock of long, black hair falling about his wellshaped head and bright, intelligent eyes--Tarzan of the apes, little primitive man, presented a picture filled, at once, with pathos and with promise--an allegorical figure of the primordial groping through the black night of ignorance toward the light of learning. burroughs-thuvia-725 Her shapely, sandalled foot tapped impatiently upon the jewel-strewn walk that wound beneath the stately sorapus trees across the scarlet sward of the royal gardens of Thuvan Dihn, Jeddak of Ptarth, as a dark-haired, redskinned warrior bent low toward her, whispering heated words close to her ear. The day following the coming of Vas Kor to the palace of the Prince of Helium great excitement reigned throughout the twin cities, reaching its climax in the palace of Carthoris. How could she know that the shrug was but Carthoris'' way of attempting, by physical effort, to cast blighting sorrow from his heart, or that the smile upon his lips was the fighting smile of his father with which the son gave outward evidence of the determination he had reached to submerge his own great love in his efforts to save Thuvia of Ptarth for another, because he believed that she loved this other! burroughs-warlord-706 Matai Shang rose and, leaning over the edge of the balcony, gave voice to the weird call that I had heard from the lips of the priests upon the tiny balcony upon the face of the Golden Cliffs overlooking the Valley Dor, when, in times past, they called the fearsome white apes and the hideous plant men to the feast of victims floating down the broad bosom of the mysterious Iss toward the silian-infested waters of the Lost Sea of Korus. It was the deep voice of authority that marks the ruler of men, and when I turned to face the resplendent figure of a giant yellow man I did not need to ask to know that it was Salensus Oll. At his right stood Matai Shang, and behind them a score of guardsmen. "You need not wait ten days, Salensus Oll," replied Thurid; and then, turning suddenly upon me as he extended a pointing finger, he cried: "There stands John Carter, Prince of Helium!" conrad-heart-708 We looked on, waiting patiently -there was nothing else to do till the end of the flood; but it was only after a long silence, when he said, in a hesitating voice, "I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh water sailor for a bit," that we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow''s inconclusive experiences. "I don''t want to bother you much with what happened to me personally," he began, showing in this remark the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear; "yet to understand the effect of it on me you ought to know how I got out there, what I saw, how I went up that river to the place where I first met the poor chap. conrad-lord-712 And it''s easy enough to talk of Master Jim, after a good spread, two hundred feet above the sea-level, with a box of decent cigars handy, on a blessed evening of freshness and starlight that would make the best of us forget we are only on sufferance here and got to pick our way in cross lights, watching every precious minute and every irremediable step, trusting we shall manage yet to go out decently in the end -but not so sure of it after all -and with dashed little help to expect from those we touch elbows with right and left. conrad-secret-709 I got a sleeping suit out of my room and, coming back on deck, saw the naked man from the sea sitting on the main hatch, glimmering white in the darkness, his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. He was not a bit like me, really; yet, as we stood leaning over my bed place, whispering side by side, with our dark heads together and our backs to the door, anybody bold enough to open it stealthily would have been treated to the uncanny sight of a double captain busy talking in whispers with his other self. I kept my eyes on him, and so when the voice outside the door announced, "There''s a ship''s boat coming our way, sir," I saw him give a start -the first movement he had made for hours. dickens-david-748 The way in which I listened to all the incidents of the house that made themselves audible to me; the ringing of bells, the opening and shutting of doors, the murmuring of voices, the footsteps on the stairs; to any laughing, whistling, or singing, outside, which seemed more dismal than anything else to me in my solitude and disgrace the uncertain pace of the hours, especially at night, when I would wake thinking it was morning, and find that the family were not yet gone to bed, and that all the length of night had yet to come the depressed dreams and nightmares I had the return of day, noon, afternoon, evening, when the boys played in the churchyard, and I watched them from a distance within the room, being ashamed to show myself at the window lest they should know I was a prisoner the strange sensation of never hearing myself speak the fleeting intervals of something like cheerfulness, which came with eating and drinking, and went away with it the setting in of rain one evening, with a fresh smell, and its coming down faster and faster between me and the church, until it and gathering night seemed to quench me in gloom, and fear, and remorse all this appears to have gone round and round for years instead of days, it is so vividly and strongly stamped on my remembrance. doyle-adventures-716 My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if we had got home all safe, and after that we met him -that is to say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house any more." doyle-case-713 Finally, his eyes came round to the fresh and smiling face of Billy, the young but very wise and tactful page, who had helped a little to fill up the gap of loneliness and isolation which surrounded the saturnine figure of the great detective. Watson had taken a step forward when the bedroom door opened, and the long, thin form of Holmes emerged, his face pale and drawn, but his step and bearing as active as ever. "If the cycle of nine days holds good then we shall have the professor at his worst to-night," said Holmes. "The real source," said Holmes, "lies, of course, in that untimely love affair which gave our impetuous professor the idea that he could only gain his wish by turning himself into a younger man. "I am sure the case is in very good hands," said Holmes. doyle-his-717 By some juggling of the clocks it is quite possible that they may have got Scott Eccles to bed earlier than he thought but in any case it is likely that when Garcia went out of his way to tell him that it was one it was really not more than twelve. "Just sit down in that chair, Watson," said Sherlock Holmes when we had returned to our apartment at the Bull. "A chaotic case, my dear Watson," said Holmes over an evening pipe. "Let us reconstruct, Watson," said Holmes after half an hour of silence. "Dear me, Watson," said Holmes, staring with great curiosity at the slips of foolscap which the landlady had handed to him, "this is certainly a little unusual. "In that case," said Holmes, "my suggestion is that we lock this door, leave things as we found them, go with this lady to her room, and form our opinion after we have heard what it is that she has to say to us." "Our time is limited, Watson," said Holmes. doyle-hound-711 No signs of violence were to be discovered upon Sir Charles''s person, and though the doctor''s evidence pointed to an almost incredible facial distortion -so great that Dr. Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him -it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea and death from cardiac exhaustion. Dr. Mortimer looked at Holmes with an air of professional interest, and Sir Henry Baskerville turned a pair of puzzled dark eyes upon me. I start them from the day which succeeded that upon which I had established two facts of great importance, the one that Mrs. Laura Lyons of Coombe Tracey had written to Sir Charles Baskerville and made an appointment with him at the very place and hour that he met his death, the other that the lurking man upon the moor was to be found among the stone huts upon the hillside. doyle-memoirs-718 "The case," said Sherlock Holmes as we chatted over our cigars that night in our rooms at Baker Street, "is one where, as in the investigations which you have chronicled under the names of ''A Study in Scarlet'' and of ''The Sign of Four,'' we have been compelled to reason backward from effects to causes. "You remember," said he, "that some little time ago, when I read you the passage in one of Poe''s sketches, in which a close reasoner follows the unspoken thoughts of his companion, you were inclined to treat the matter as a mere tour de force of the author. "You remember," said he, "that some little time ago, when I read you the passage in one of Poe''s sketches, in which a close reasoner follows the unspoken thoughts of his companion, you were inclined to treat the matter as a mere tour de force of the author. emerson-address-728 Thought may work cold and intransitive in things, and find no end or unity; but the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all natures; and the worlds, time, space, eternity, do seem to break out into joy. Boldly, with hand, and heart, and life, he declared it was God. Thus is he, as I think, the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of a man. 2. The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first; this, namely; that the Moral Nature, that Law of laws, whose revelations introduce greatness, -yea, God himself, into the open soul, is not explored as the fountain of the established teaching in society. emerson-american-729 It is one of those fables, which, out of an unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said. Time shall teach him, that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives. emerson-conduct-752 And when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense, the riot of the senses, the absence of bonds, clanship, fellow-feeling of any kind, he feels, that, when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished, as if virtue were coming to be a luxury which few could afford, or, as Burke said, "at a market almost too high for humanity." He may fix his inventory of necessities and of enjoyments on what scale he pleases, but if he wishes the power and privilege of thought, the chalking out his own career, and having society on his own terms, he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy. emerson-conservative-730 But although this bifold fact lies thus united in real nature, and so united that no man can continue to exist in whom both these elements do not work, yet men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. For man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easily born; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition _extempore_, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love. emerson-english-749 England has inoculated all nations with her civilization, intelligence, and tastes; and, to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself, by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, and, much more, the ideal standard, if only by means of the very impatience which English forms are sure to awaken in independent minds. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different nations, -three languages, three or four nations; -the currents of thought are counter: contemplation and practical skill; active intellect and dead conservatism; world-wide enterprise, and devoted use and wont; aggressive freedom and hospitable law, with bitter class-legislation; a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole earth, and homesick to a man; a country of extremes, -dukes and chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen colliers; -nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions, and nothing denounced without salvos of cordial praise. emerson-lecture-731 The reason and influence of wealth, the aspect of philosophy and religion, and the tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England; the aspect of poetry, as the exponent and interpretation of these things; the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent; -these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered. In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very ignorant, because they do not know what his hope has certainly apprised him shall be; in the love-glance of a girl; in the hair-splitting conscientiousness of some eccentric person, who has found some new scruple to embarrass himself and his neighbors withal; is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come, more than in the now organized and accredited oracles. emerson-literary-732 Meantime I know that a very different estimate of the scholar''s profession prevails in this country, and the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of the youth in respect to the culture of the intellect. I console myself in the poverty of my thoughts; in the paucity of great men, in the malignity and dulness of the nations, by falling back on these sublime recollections, and seeing what the prolific soul could beget on actual nature; -seeing that Plato was, and Shakspeare, and Milton, -three irrefragable facts. emerson-man-733 Let it be granted, that our life, as we lead it, is common and mean; that some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society, that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books and in dim traditions; that prophets and poets, that beautiful and perfect men, we are not now, no, nor have even seen such; that some sources of human instruction are almost unnamed and unknown among us; that the community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstasy or a divine illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with the spiritual world. emerson-method-734 That no single end may be selected, and nature judged thereby, appears from this, that if man himself be considered as the end, and it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded. When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common, as fast as the madrepores make coral, -suns and planets hospitable to souls, -and then shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there, -duke and marshal, abbe and madame, -a gambling table where each is laying traps for the other, where the end is ever by some lie or fetch to outwit your rival and ruin him with this solemn fop in wig and stars, -the king; one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy, and if so, whether the experiment have not failed, and whether it be quite worth while to make more, and glut the innocent space with so poor an article. emerson-nature-754 And in common life, whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius, will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him, -the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man. But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God. The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted by thought, it clothes itself in images. By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause. emerson-representative-755 His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death,that law by which, in nature, decomposition is recomposition, and putrefaction and cholera are only signals of a new creation; his discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state; and leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul; his beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of figure, of the line, sometimes hypothetically given, as his defining of virtue, courage, justice, temperance; his love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves; the cave of Trophonius; the ring of Gyges; the charioteer and two horses; the golden, silver, brass and iron temperaments; Theuth and Thamus; and the visions of Hades and the Fates,fables which have imprinted themselves in the human memory like the signs of the zodiac; his soliform eye and his boniform soul;*(16) his doctrine of assimilation; his doctrine of reminiscence; his clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction, which secure instant justice throughout the universe, instanced everywhere, but specially in the doctrine, "what comes from God to us, returns from us to God," and in Socrates'' belief that the laws below are sisters of the laws above. emerson-transcendentalist-735 The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances, and the animal wants of man; the idealist on the power of Thought and of Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture. In like manner, if there is anything grand and daring in human thought or virtue, any reliance on the vast, the unknown; any presentiment; any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature. Like the young Mozart, they are rather ready to cry ten times a day, "But are you sure you love me?" Nay, if they tell you their whole thought, they will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature; that there are persons whom in their hearts they daily thank for existing, -persons whose faces are perhaps unknown to them, but whose fame and spirit have penetrated their solitude, -and for whose sake they wish to exist. emerson-young-736 If this invention has reduced England to a third of its size, by bringing people so much nearer, in this country it has given a new celerity to _time_, or anticipated by fifty years the planting of tracts of land, the choice of water privileges, the working of mines, and other natural advantages. These proceeded from a variety of motives, from an impatience of many usages in common life, from a wish for greater freedom than the manners and opinions of society permitted, but in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the State, the State had let fall to the ground; that in the scramble of parties for the public purse, the main duties of government were omitted, -the duty to instruct the ignorant, to supply the poor with work and with good guidance. kipling-kim-757 But it is a long road from thy sons to the man in whose hands these things lie." Kim warmed to the game, for it reminded him of experiences in the letter-carrying line, when, for the sake of a few pice, he pretended to know more than he knew. "Now," said Kim, picking his teeth, we will return to that place; but thou, O Holy One, must wait a little way off, because thy feet are heavier than mine and I am anxious to see more of that Red Bull." "They say"the old man''s eye lighted at Kim''s speech"they say that the meaning of my horoscope is now accomplished, and that being led backthough as thou knowest I went out of curiosityto these people and their Red Bull I must needs go to a madrissah and be turned into a Sahib. lewis-our-759 He was aghast at this abyss of money-spending into which he had leaped, and the Brass-button Man was suspiciously wondering what this person wanted of him; but they crossed to the adjacent saloon, a New York corner saloon, which of course "glittered" with a large mirror, heaped glasses, and a long shining foot-rail on which, in bravado, Mr. Wrenn placed his Cum-Fee-Best shoe. For here he was daintily, yes, daintily, studied by the tea-room habitues--two bouncing and talkative daughters of an American tourist, a slender pale-haired English girl student of Assyriology with large top-barred eye-glasses over her protesting eyes, and a sprinkling of people living along Tavistock Place, who looked as though they wanted to know if your opinions on the National Gallery and abstinence were sound. london-call-762 As the days went by, other dogs came in crates and at the ends of ropes, some docilely, and some raging and roaring as he had come; and, one and all, he watched them pass under the dominion of the man in the red sweater. Dave was wheeler or sled dog, pulling in front of him was Buck, then came Sol-leks; the rest of the team was strung out ahead, single file, to the leader, which position was filled by Spitz. He kept Francois busy, for the dog-driver was in constant apprehension of the life-and-death struggle between the two which he knew must take place sooner or later; and on more than one night the sounds of quarrelling and strife among the other dogs turned him out of his sleeping robe, fearful that Buck and Spitz were at it. ''Never was there such a dog,'' said John Thornton one day, as the partners watched Buck marching out of camp. london-iron-768 Ernest''s continued presence in Berkeley, by the way, was accounted for by the fact that he was taking special courses in biology at the university, and also that he was hard at work on a new book entitled ''Philosophy and Revolution.''* It is on record that Theodore Roosevelt, at that time President of the United States, said in 1905 A.D., in his address at Harvard Commencement: ''We all know that, as things actually are, many of the most influential and most highly remunerated members of the Bar in every centre of wealth, make it their special task to work out bold and ingenious schemes by which their wealthy clients, individual or corporate, can evade the laws which were made to regulate, in the interests of the public, the uses of great wealth.'' london-martin-764 He saw himself, stripped to the waist, with naked fists, fighting his great fight with Liverpool Red in the forecastle of the Susquehanna; and he saw the bloody deck of the John Rogers, that gray morning of attempted mutiny, the mate kicking in death-throes on the main-hatch, the revolver in the old man''s hand spitting fire and smoke, the men with passionwrenched faces, of brutes screaming vile blasphemies and falling about him and then he returned to the central scene, calm and clean in the steadfast light, where Ruth sat and talked with him amid books and paintings; and he saw the grand piano upon which she would later play to him; and he heard the echoes of his own selected and correct words, "But then, may I not be peculiarly constituted to write?" london-people-766 All of which I enjoyed, and the bread, the marmalade, and the tea, till the time came for Johnny Upright to find me a lodging, which he did, not half a dozen doors away, on his own respectable and opulent street, in a house as like to his own as a pea to its mate. Little items he had been imparting to me as he walked along; of being mobbed in parks and on tram-cars; of climbing on the platform to lead the forlorn hope, when brother speaker after brother speaker had been dragged down by the angry crowd and cruelly beaten; of a siege in a church, where he and three others had taken sanctuary, and where, amid flying missiles and the crashing of stained glass, they had fought off the mob till rescued by platoons of constables; of pitched and giddy battles on stairways, galleries, and balconies; of smashed windows, collapsed stairways, wrecked lecture halls, and broken heads and bonesand then, with a regretful sigh, he looked at me and said: ''How I envy you big, strong men! london-sea-765 ''What can I tell you,'' he demanded, with a recrudescence of fierceness, ''of the meagerness of a child''s lifeof fish diet and coarse living; of going out with the boats from the time I could crawl; of my brothers, who went away one by one to the deep-sea farming and never came back; of myself, unable to read or write, cabin-boy at the mature age of ten on the coastwise, old-country ships; of the rough fare and rougher usage, where kicks and blows were bed and breakfast and took the place of speech, and fear and hatred and pain were my only soul-experiences? london-son-763 He who tries this for the first time, if haply he avoids bringing his shoes in dangerous propinquity and measures not his length on the treacherous footing, will give up exhausted at the end of a hundred yards; he who can keep out of the way of the dogs for a whole day may well crawl into his sleeping bag with a clear conscience and a pride which passeth all understanding; and he who travels twenty sleeps on the Long Trail is a man whom the gods may envy. And when the short day left them, and the man lay down in the snow and blubbered, it was the woman who lashed him to the sled, bit her lips with the pain of her aching limbs, and helped the dog haul him to Malemute Kid''s cabin. london-to-767 But all this---the mysterious, far-reaching hairline trail, the absence of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all--made no impression on the man. Empty as the man''s mind was of thoughts, he was keenly observant, and he noticed the changes in the creek, the curves and bends and timber jams, and always he sharply noted where he placed his feet. But the man knew, having achieved a judgement on the subject, and he removed the mitten from his right hand and helped tear out the ice particles. He did this sitting down, and he stood up to do it; and all the while the dog sat in the snow, its wolf brush of a tail curled around warmly over its forefeet, its sharp wolf ears pricked forward intently as it watched the man. machiavelli-prince-680 Therefore, he who considers it necessary to secure himself in his new principality, to win friends, to overcome either by force or fraud, to make himself beloved and feared by the people, to be followed and revered by the soldiers, to exterminate those who have power or reason to hurt him, to change the old order of things for new, to be severe and gracious, magnanimous and liberal, to destroy a disloyal soldiery and to create new, to maintain friendship with kings and princes in such a way that they must help him with zeal and offend with caution, cannot find a more lively example than the actions of this man. melville-benito-746 With no small interest, Captain Delano continued to watch hera proceeding not much facilitated by the vapours partly mantling the hull, through which the far matin light from her cabin streamed equivocally enough; much like the sunby this time crescented on the rim of the horizon, and apparently, in company with the strange ship, entering the harbourwhich, wimpled by the same low, creeping clouds, showed not unlike a Lima intriguante''s one sinister eye peering across the Plaza from the Indian loop-hole of her dusk saya-y-manta. But drowning criticism in compassion, after a fresh repetition of his sympathies, Captain Delano having heard out his story, not only engaged, as in the first place, to see Don Benito and his people supplied in their immediate bodily needs, but, also, now further promised to assist him in procuring a large permanent supply of water, as well as some sails and rigging; and, though it would involve no small embarrassment to himself, yet he would spare three of his best seamen for temporary deck officers; so that without delay the ship might proceed to Concepcion, there fully to refit for Lima, her destined port. melville-billy-744 One instance of such apprehensions: In the same year with this story, Nelson, then Vice-Admiral Sir Horatio, being with the fleet off the Spanish coast, was directed by the Admiral in command to shift his pennant from the Captain to the Theseus; and for this reason: that the latter ship having newly arrived on the station from home where it had taken part in the Great Mutiny, danger was apprehended from the temper of the men; and it was thought that an officer like Nelson was the one, not indeed to terrorize the crew into base subjection, but to win them, by force of his mere presence, back to an allegiance if not as enthusiastic as his own, yet as true. melville-moby-743 For loath to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a voyagebeyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his hardearned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him,poor old Bildad lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only bound by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin, convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern, for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say, "Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can." melville-typee-745 We had perceived the loom of the mountains about sunset; so that, after running all night with a very light breeze, we found ourselves close in with the island the next morning; but as the bay we sought lay on its farther side, we were obliged to sail some distance along the shore, catching, as we proceeded, short glimpses of blooming valleys, deep glens, waterfalls, and waving groves, hidden here and there by projecting and rocky headlands, every moment opening to the view some new and startling scene of beauty. Even before visiting the Marquesas, I had heard from men who had touched at the group on former voyages some revolting stories in connexion with these savages; and fresh in my remembrance was the adventure of the master of the Katherine, who only a few months previous, imprudently venturing into this bay in an armed boat for the purpose of barter, was seized by the natives, carried back a little distance into their valley, and was only saved from a cruel death by the intervention of a young girl, who facilitated his escape by night along the beach to Nukuheva. plato-charmides-645 Critias, when he heard this, said: The headache will be an unexpected gain to my young relation, if the pain in his head compels him to improve his mind: and I can tell you, Socrates, that Charmides is not only pre-eminent in beauty among his equals, but also in that quality which is given by the charm; and this, as you say, is temperance? Charmides blushed, and the blush heightened his beauty, for modesty is becoming in youth; he then said very ingenuously, that he really could not at once answer, either yes, or no, to the question which I had asked: For, said he, if I affirm that I am not temperate, that would be a strange thing for me to say of myself, and also I should give the lie to Critias, and many others who think as he tells you, that I am temperate: but, on the other hand, if I say that I am, I shall have to praise myself, which would be ill manners; and therefore I do not know how to answer you. plato-cratylus-686 Her. I should explain to you, Socrates, that our friend Cratylus has been arguing about names; he says that they are natural and not conventional; not a portion of the human voice which men agree to use; but that there is a truth or correctness in them, which is the same for Hellenes as for barbarians. Soc. Then, Hermogenes, I should say that this giving of names can be no such light matter as you fancy, or the work of light or chance persons; and Cratylus is right in saying that things have names by nature, and that not every man is an artificer of names, but he only who looks to the name which each thing by nature has, and is able to express the true forms of things in letters and syllables. plato-critias-676 Of the water which ran off they carried some to the grove of Poseidon, where were growing all manner of trees of wonderful height and beauty, owing to the excellence of the soil, while the remainder was conveyed by aqueducts along the bridges to the outer circles; and there were many temples built and dedicated to many gods; also gardens and places of exercise, some for men, and others for horses in both of the two islands formed by the zones; and in the centre of the larger of the two there was set apart a race-course of a stadium in width, and in length allowed to extend all round the island, for horses to race in. plato-crito-682 Soc. Dear Crito, your zeal is invaluable, if a right one; but if wrong, the greater the zeal the greater the evil; and therefore we ought to consider whether these things shall be done or not. In the matter of just and unjust, fair and foul, good and evil, which are the subjects of our present consultation, ought we to follow the opinion of the many and to fear them; or the opinion of the one man who has understanding, and whom we ought to fear and reverence more than all the rest of the world: and whom deserting we shall destroy and injure that principle in us which may be assumed to be improved by justice and deteriorated by injustice; is there not such a principle? Soc. Then consider the matter in this way: Imagine that I am about to play truant (you may call the proceeding by any name which you like), and the laws and the government come and interrogate me: "Tell us, Socrates," they say; "what are you about? plato-euthydemus-689 I saluted the brothers, whom I had not seen for a long time; and then I said to Cleinias: Here are two wise men, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, Cleinias, wise not in a small but in a large way of wisdom, for they know all about war,-all that a good general ought to know about the array and command of an army, and the whole art of fighting in armour: and they know about law too, and can teach a man how to use the weapons of the courts when he is injured. Let us consider a further point, I said: Seeing that all men desire happiness, and happiness, as has been shown, is gained by a use, and a right use, of the things of life, and the right use of them, and good fortune in the use of them, is given by knowledge,-the inference is that everybody ought by all means to try and make himself as wise as he can? plato-euthyphro-688 Yes, Socrates; and, as I was saying, I can tell you, if you would like to hear them, many other things about the gods which would quite amaze you. Soc. Well then, my dear friend Euthyphro, do tell me, for my better instruction and information, what proof have you that in the opinion of all the gods a servant who is guilty of murder, and is put in chains by the master of the dead man, and dies because he is put in chains before he who bound him can learn from the interpreters of the gods what he ought to do with him, dies unjustly; and that on behalf of such an one a son ought to proceed against his father and accuse him of murder. Soc. In like manner holiness or piety is the art of attending to the gods?-that would be your meaning, Euthyphro? plato-gorgias-687 Soc. I mean to say, that the producers of those things which the author of the song praises, that is to say, the physician, the trainer, the money-maker, will at once come to you, and first the physician will say: "O Socrates, Gorgias is deceiving you, for my art is concerned with the greatest good of men and not his." And when I ask, Who are you? poe-angel-644 Having completed them to my satisfaction, I again looked toward the time-piece, and was half inclined to believe in the possibility of odd accidents when I found that, instead of my ordinary fifteen or twenty minutes, I had been dozing only three; for it still wanted seven and twenty of the appointed hour. My watch informed me that it was half past seven; and, of course, having slept two hours, I was too late for my appointment "It will make no difference," I said; "I can call at the office in the morning and apologize; in the meantime what can be the matter with the clock?" Upon examining it I discovered that one of the raisin-stems which I had been flipping about the room during the discourse of the Angel of the Odd had flown through the fractured crystal, and lodging, singularly enough, in the key-hole, with an end projecting outward, had thus arrested the revolution of the minute-hand. poe-balloon-683 C., we are enabled to be the first to furnish the public with a detailed account of this most extraordinary voyage, which was performed between Saturday, the 6th instant, at 11 A.M. and 2 P.M., on Tuesday, the 9th instant, by Sir Everard Bringhurst; Mr. Osborne, a nephew of Lord Bentinck''s; Mr. Monck Mason and Mr. Robert Holland, the well-known aeronauts; Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, author of "Jack Sheppard," etc.; and Mr. Henson the projector of the late unsuccessful flying machinewith two seamen from Woolwichin all, eight persons. The inflation was commenced very quietly at day-break, on Saturday morning, the 6th instant in the courtyard of Wheal-Vor House, Mr. Osborne''s seat, about a mile from Penstruthal, in North Wales; and at 7 minutes past 11, everything being ready for departure, the balloon was set free, rising gently but steadily, in a direction nearly South; no use being made, for the first half hour, of either the screw or the rudder. poe-berenice-631 To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device on the margin, or in the topography of a book; to become absorbed for the better part of a summer''s day, in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry, or upon the door; to lose myself for an entire night in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire; to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower; to repeat monotonously some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind; to lose all sense of motion or physical existence, by means of absolute bodily quiescence long and obstinately persevered in; --such were a few of the most common and least pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to anything like analysis or explanation. poe-black-632 Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart --one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; --hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; --hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; --hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin --a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it --if such a thing were possible --even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God. poe-cask-641 He had a weak point --this Fortunato --although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. I said to him --"My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. "I have my doubts," I replied; "and I was silly enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter. We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs. Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones, we perceived a still interior crypt or recess, in depth about four feet, in width three, in height six or seven. "Proceed," I said; "herein is the Amontillado. "Pass your hand," I said, "over the wall; you cannot help feeling the nitre. "True," I replied; "the Amontillado." "The Amontillado!" I said. "Yes," I said, "let us be gone." shelley-frankenstein-721 It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for everthat the brightness of beloved eye can have been extinguished, and the sound of a voice so familiar, and dear to the ear, can be hushed, never more to be heard. We could not tear ourselves away from each other, nor persuade ourselves to say the word "Farewell!" It was said; and we retired under the pretence of seeking repose, each fancying that the other was deceived: but when at morning''s dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all theremy father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my Elizabeth to renew her entreaties that I would write often, and to bestow the last feminine attentions on her playmate and friend. stoker-dracula-693 I only told him that much, and then he stood up, and he looked very strong and very grave as he took both my hands in his and said he hoped I would be happy, and that if I ever wanted a friend I must count him one of my best. And let me say that I am at a loss for words to thank you for your goodness to my poor dear." He paused a moment, and went on: "I know that she understood your goodness even better than I do; and if I was rude or in any way wanting at that time you acted soyou remember"the Professor nodded"you must forgive me." 25 September.I cannot help feeling terribly excited as the time draws near for the visit of Dr. Van Helsing, for somehow I expect that it will throw some light upon Jonathan''s sad experience: and as he attended poor dear Lucy in her last illness, he can tell me all about her. stoker-dracula-694 He crossed himself, as he answered laconically: "Walpurgis nacht." Then he took out his watch, a great, old-fashioned German silver thing as big as a turnip and looked at it, with his eyebrows gathered together and a little impatient shrug of his shoulders. Whilst we were talking, we heard a sort of sound between a yelp and a bark.It was far away; but the horses got very restless, and it took Johann all his time to quiet them. Johann looked under his lifted hand at the horizon and said, "The storm of snow, he comes before long time." Then he looked at his watch again, and, straightway holding his reins firmly--for the horses were still pawing the ground restlessly and shaking their heads--he climbed to his box as though the time had come for proceeding on our journey. twain-adventures-696 One time Tom sent a boy to run about town with a blazing stick, which he called a slogan (which was the sign for the Gang to get together), and then he said he had got secret news by his spies that next day a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich Arabs was going to camp in Cave Hollow with two hundred elephants, and six hundred camels, and over a thousand "sumter" mules, all loaded down with di''monds, and they didn''t have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in ambuscade, as he called it, and kill the lot and scoop the things. twain-adventures-760 The crowd filed up the aisles: the aged and needy postmaster, who had seen better days; the mayor and his wifefor they had a mayor there, among other unnecessaries; the justice of the peace; the widow Douglas, fair, smart and forty, a generous, goodhearted soul and well-to-do, her hill mansion the only palace in the town, and the most hospitable and much the most lavish in the matter of festivities that St. Petersburg could boast; the bent and venerable Major and Mrs. Ward; lawyer Riverson, the new notable from a distance; next the belle of the village, followed by a troop of lawn-clad and ribbon-decked young heart-breakers; then all the young clerks in town in a bodyfor they had stood in the vestibule sucking their cane-heads, a circling wall of oiled and simpering admirers, till the last girl had run their gauntlet; and last of all came the Model Boy, Willie Mufferson, taking as heedful care of his mother as if she were cut glass. twain-connecticut-679 twain-extracts-681 -I escaped last Tuesday night, and traveled two days, and built me another shelter in a secluded place, and obliterated my tracks as well as I could, but she hunted me cut by means of a beast which she has tamed and calls a wolf, and came making that pitiful noise again, and shedding that water out of the places she looks with. This made her sorry for the creatures which live in there, which she calls fish, for she continues to fasten names on to things that don''t need them and don''t come when they are called by them, which is a matter of no consequence to her, she is such a numskull, anyway; so she got a lot of them out and brought them in last night and put them in my bed to keep warm, but I have noticed them now and then all day and I don''t see that they are any happier there than they were before, only quieter. twain-ghost-677 For two hours I sat there, thinking of bygone times; recalling old scenes, and summoning half-forgotten faces out of the mists of the past; listening, in fancy, to voices that long ago grew silent for all time, and to once familiar songs that nobody sings now. I covered up in bed, and lay listening to the rain and wind and the faint creaking of distant shutters, till they lulled me to sleep. I heard it approach the door -pass out without moving bolt or lock -and wander away among the dismal corridors, straining the floors and joists till they creaked again as it passed -and then silence reigned once more. Then it occurred to me to come over the way and haunt this place a little. But when I saw a light in your room to-night I roused my energies again and went at it with a deal of the old freshness. twain-great-678 So he proceeded to his next move -a no less important one than the impeachment of the chief magistrate, James Russell Nickoy; a man of character and ability, and possessed of great wealth, he being the owner of a house with a parlor to it, three acres and a half of yam land, and the only boat in Pitcairn''s, a whale-boat; and, most unfortunately, a pretext for this impeachment offered itself at just the right time. About thirty years ago an important case came before the courts under this law, in this wise: a chicken belonging to Elizabeth Young (aged, at that time, fifty-eight, a daughter of John Mills, one of the mutineers of the Bounty) trespassed upon the grounds of Thursday October Christian (aged twenty-nine, a grandson of Fletcher Christian, one of the mutineers). "Seize all the defenses and public properties of all kinds, establish martial law, put the army and navy on a war footing, and proclaim the empire!" twain-my-640 My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. Then he said, "She is four minutes slow -regulator wants pushing up." I tried to stop him -tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time. He said it wanted cleaning and oiling, besides regulating -come in a week. He took the watch all to pieces while I waited, and then said the barrel was "swelled." He said he could reduce it in three days. He repaired the kingbolt, but what the watch gained in one way it lost in another. I padded my breast for a few days, but finally took the watch to another watchmaker. The oldest man in the world could not make head or tail of the time of day by such a watch, and so I went again to have the thing repaired. twain-new-642 This country, during the last thirty or forty years, has produced some of the most remark able cases of insanity of which there is any mention in history. And on both these occasions the circumstances of the killing were so aggravated, and the murders so seemingly heartless and treacherous, that if Baldwin had not been insane he would have been hanged without the shadow of a doubt. This remark, and another which he made to a friend, that his position in society made the killing of an obscure citizen simply an "eccen tricity" instead of a crime, were shown to be evi dences of insanity, and so Hackett escaped punish ment. However, it is not possible to recount all the mar velous cases of insanity that have come under the public notice in the last thirty or forty years. twain-niagara-643 I love to read of his inspired sagacity, and his love of the wild free life of mountain and forest, and his general nobility of character, and his stately metaphorical manner of speech, and his chivalrous love for the dusky maiden, and the picturesque pomp of his dress and accoutrements. When I found the shops at Niagara Falls full of dainty Indian bead work, and stunning moccasins, and equally stunning toy figures representing human beings who carried their weapons in holes bored through their arms and bodies, and had feet shaped like a pie, I was filled with emotion. And sure enough, as I approached the bridge leading over to Luna Island, I came upon a noble Son of the Forest sitting under a tree, diligently at work on a bead reticule. "It is an awful savage tribe of Indians that do the bead work and moccasins for Niagara Falls, doctor. twain-political-695 Like anybody else of similar experience, I try to appear (to strangers) to be an old housekeeper; consequently I said in an off-hand way that I had been intending for some time to have six or eight lightning-rods put up, but -The stranger started, and looked inquiringly at me, but I was serene. Then he said he COULD make two hundred and fifty feet answer; but to do it right, and make the best job in town of it, and attract the admiration of the just and the unjust alike, and compel all parties to say they never saw a more symmetrical and hypothetical display of lightning-rods since they were born, he supposed he really couldn''t get along without four hundred, though he was not vindictive, and trusted he was willing to try. But no; I said to myself, this man is a stranger to me, and I will die before I''ll wrong him; there ain''t lightning-rods enough on that house, and for one I''ll never stir out of my tracks till I''ve done as I would be done by, and told him so.