Whitman AdmissionThe Outline of Science The heavenly bodies fall into two very distinct classes so far as their relation to our Earth is concerned; the one class, a very small one, comprises a sort of colony of which the Earth is a member. These bodies are called planets, or wanderers. There are eight of them, including the [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:28 PM A Modest Proposal It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:22 PM Sherman! Hold the fort! I am coming! William T. Sherman (1820–1891),—signalled to General Corse in Allatoona from the top of Kenesaw, Oct. 5, 1864. Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:20 PM Levy for troops in Bohemia LEVY OF TROOPS FOP; WARS IN BOHEMIA, 1422.
Deutsche Reichstagsakten Bd, VIII (1883) pp. x57-X65. Reprinted in Altmann und Bernheim: Ausgewlhlte Urkunden, Second Ed., pp. 174-177. German. [TR Introduction] The levy of troops for the Bohemian wars gives us a picture of the relative size and importance of the various powers of Germany in 1422. The statisticians will [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:02 PM Treaty of Westphalia In the name of the most holy and individual Trinity: Be it known to all, and every one whom it may concern, or to whom in any manner it may belong, That for many Years past, Discords and Civil Divisions being stir’d up in the Roman Empire, which increas’d to such a degree, that not [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:01 PM The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.
LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:59 PM Roland’s Pride
“O Roland, sound on your ivory horn,
To the ear of Karl shall the blast be borne:
He will bid his legions backward bend,
And all his barons their aid will lend.”
“Now God forbid it, for very shame, 15 That for me my kindred were stained with blame,
Or that gentle France to such vileness fell:
This good sword that hath [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:58 PM Oath of Hippocrates I SWEAR by Apollo the physician and Æsculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation—to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:56 PM Vinland Voyages Leif the Lucky Baptized AFTER the sixteen winters had lapsed, from the time when Eric the Red went to colonize Greenland, Leif, Eric’s son, sailed out from Greenland to Norway. He arrived in Drontheim in the autumn, when King Olaf Tryggvason was come down from the North, out of Halagoland. Leif put into Nidaros with his [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:55 PM kafka! One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:52 PM |
Student BloggersHello world! Author: whitmanadmission Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!  Date: Friday August 28, 2009 5:25 PM The Outline of Science Author: whitmanadmission The heavenly bodies fall into two very distinct classes so far as their relation to our Earth is concerned; the one class, a very small one, comprises a sort of colony of which the Earth is a member. These bodies are called planets, or wanderers. There are eight of them, including the [...]  Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:28 PM A Modest Proposal Author: whitmanadmission It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of [...]  Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:22 PM Sherman! Author: whitmanadmission Hold the fort! I am coming! William T. Sherman (1820–1891),—signalled to General Corse in Allatoona from the top of Kenesaw, Oct. 5, 1864.  Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:20 PM Levy for troops in Bohemia Author: whitmanadmission LEVY OF TROOPS FOP; WARS IN BOHEMIA, 1422.
Deutsche Reichstagsakten Bd, VIII (1883) pp. x57-X65. Reprinted in Altmann und Bernheim: Ausgewlhlte Urkunden, Second Ed., pp. 174-177. German. [TR Introduction] The levy of troops for the Bohemian wars gives us a picture of the relative size and importance of the various powers of Germany in 1422. The statisticians will [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:02 PM Treaty of Westphalia Author: whitmanadmission In the name of the most holy and individual Trinity: Be it known to all, and every one whom it may concern, or to whom in any manner it may belong, That for many Years past, Discords and Civil Divisions being stir’d up in the Roman Empire, which increas’d to such a degree, that not [...]  Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 6:01 PM The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock Author: whitmanadmission S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.
LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:59 PM Roland’s Pride Author: whitmanadmission “O Roland, sound on your ivory horn,
To the ear of Karl shall the blast be borne:
He will bid his legions backward bend,
And all his barons their aid will lend.”
“Now God forbid it, for very shame, 15 That for me my kindred were stained with blame,
Or that gentle France to such vileness fell:
This good sword that hath [...] Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:58 PM Oath of Hippocrates Author: whitmanadmission I SWEAR by Apollo the physician and Æsculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation—to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve [...]  Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:56 PM Vinland Voyages Author: whitmanadmission Leif the Lucky Baptized AFTER the sixteen winters had lapsed, from the time when Eric the Red went to colonize Greenland, Leif, Eric’s son, sailed out from Greenland to Norway. He arrived in Drontheim in the autumn, when King Olaf Tryggvason was come down from the North, out of Halagoland. Leif put into Nidaros with his [...]  Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:55 PM kafka! Author: whitmanadmission One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover [...]  Date: Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:52 PM |
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