Charles William Eliot

Harvard Classics Volume 1

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The Harvard Classics - English Poetry, Volume III, From Tennyson to Whitman

English Poetry, Volume II, From Collins to Fitzgerald

Excerpt from The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction: Anna Karenin, Volume II, by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by Constance Garnett; Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by Count Norraikow Standing at the first litany, Levin attempted to revive in himself his youthful recollections Of the intense religious emotion he had passed through betwee'n the ages of sixteen and seventeen. But he was at once convinced that it was utterly impossible to him. He attempted to look at it all as an empty custom, having no sort Of meaning, like the custom Of paying calls. But he felt that he could not do that either. Levin found himself, like the majority of his contemporaries, in the vaguest position in regard to religion. Believe he could not, and at the same time he had no firm conviction that it was all wrong. And consequently, not being able to believe in the significance of what he was doing nor to regard it with indifference as an empty formality, during the whole period Of preparing for the sacrament he was conscious Of a feeling Of discomfort and shame at doing what he did not himself understand, and what, as an inner voice told him, was there fore false and wrong. During the service he would first listen to the prayers, trying to attach some meaning to them not discordant with his own views; then feeling that he could not understand and must condemn them, he tried not to listen to them, but to attend to the thoughts, Observations, and memories which ﬂoated through his brain with extreme vividness during this idle time Of standing in church. He had stood through the litany. The evening service and the midnight service, and the next day he got up earlier than usual, and without having tea he went at eight O'clock in the morning to the church for the morning Service and the confession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Anna Karenin, Volume II, by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by Constance Garnett; Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by Count Norraikow (Classic Reprint)

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

United States. Office of Education

Walter E. Larson

Charles Hubbard Judd

J. Harold Williams

Kremer Jacob Hoke

Will Carson Ryan

Samuel Chester Parker

A Report to the Iowa State Board of Education of a Survey Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Education

State Higher Educational Institutions of Iowa

Excerpt from The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction The history of the German novel would have, however, also to record that those writers have secured the most permanent distinction who have most significantly modified in their own way the suggestions which foreign examples gave them, and that the greatest distinction of all belongs to writers whom we can, if we will, associate with one or another Of the main currents, but wh'o are by no means carried away by it. In the work of these men the national character Of the German novel, if it has a national character, ought to be discoverable. For two reasons it is a fair question whether the Ger man novel has a national character. In the first place, modern Germany has been a nation only Since 1871; and in the second place, only in times of some great crisis does there appear to be in Germany a national life, as we under stand the term. At other times life in Germany is urban, provincial, or private, in those aspects of existence which the Germans most prize. The imperial capital affects to represent Germany as London represents England and Paris represents France; but such ascendancy is stoutly denied Berlin in the capitals of the other states, and Saxons or Bavarians refuse to submit to Prussian hegemony in any other than political and military affairs. In literature Prussia is not the nation; the empire itself is a federation of states, and Berlin is less specifically a German city than any other in the realm. Germany is emphatically e plum'bus. Still, there may be some bond of union stronger than political alliance, some fundamental quality common to Prussian, Saxon, and Bavarian. In this we should seek the national character. We should find the national character depicted in the historical novel, which has had a great vogue in Germany; but we may discern it also in the fiction devoted to the problems Of contemporary life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (Classic Reprint)

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Remarks of President Eliot of Harvard University Before the Recess Committee on Taxation Massachusetts Legislature, October 23, 1906

Address Delivered Before the American Academy of Dental Science, at Their Eleventh Annual Meeting, Held in Boston, Oct. 30, 1878

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Glenn Allen Rick

San Diego (Calif.). Planning Commission

A Report to San Diego City Planning Commission

A Plan for La Joaa

The Harvard Classics: The Harvard classics. The editor's introduction; reader's guide; index to the first lines of poems, songs & choruses, hymns & psalms; general index; chronological index

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