Introduction: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and detail. The theme, if the present interpreter be right, is the great regeneration, the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man: the same theme which Paul so wisely and eloquently set forth in writing to his disciples in Corinth, the theme of all mystics in all lands.

James Wylie is about to make a move on the dambrod, and in the little Scotch room there is an awful silence befitting the occasion. James with his hand poised?for if he touches a piece he has to play it, Alick will see to that?raises his red head suddenly to read Alick?s face. His father, who is Alick, is pretending to be in a panic lest James should make this move. James grins heartlessly, and his fingers are about to close on the ?man? when some instinct of self-preser...

Chapter I. I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth?s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter mouths and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly. Had it not been my custom to run u...

Wallenstein, Herzog zu Friedland, kaiserlicher Generalissimus im Dreibigjahrigen Kriege Octavio Piccolomini, Generalleutnant Max Piccolomini, sein Sohn, Oberst bei einem Kurassierregiment Graf Terzky, Wallensteins Schwager,Chef mehrerer Regimenter Illo Feldmarschall, Wallensteins Vertrauter Isolani, General der Kroaten Buttler, Chef eines Dragonerregiments Tiefenbach, Chef eines Dragonerregiments Don Maradas, General unter Wallenstein Gotz, General unter Wallenstein Cola...

The Dialect of the West Of England Particularly Somersetshire; With A Glossary Of Words Now In Use There; Also With Poems And Other Pieces Exemplifying The Dialect. By James Jennings, Honorary Secretary of the Metropolitan Literary Institution, London. Based On The Second Edition, The Whole Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, With Two Dissertations On The Anglo-Saxon Pronouns, and Other Pieces.

Characters: Mr. Matthews, an old man Elizabeth, his daughter Walter, his son Mr. Manly, Elizabeth?s husband Anna, Elizabeth?s maid The Countess Polly, Walter?s wife Sophie, Matthew?s wife Trim, Walter?s valet Jeremy, Manly?s valet Belinda, a little girl about ten years of age Mr. Nugent A troop of dancers

It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the independence of lodgings. I do not think I ever was so satisfied and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, I sate down in a little three-cornered room above a pastry-cook?s shop in the county town of Eltham. My father had left me that afternoon, after delivering himself of a few plain precepts, strongly expressed, for my guidance in the new course of life on which I was entering. I was to be a clerk under t...

It was once my good fortune to assist in a discovery of some importance to lovers of literature, and to searchers after the new and wonderful. As nearly a quarter of a century has since elapsed, and as two others shared in the discovery, it may seem to the reader strange that the general public has been kept in ignorance of an event apparently so full of interest. Yet this silence is quite explicable; for of the three participants none has heretofore written for publicat...

Vorwort Vor jetzt zehn Jahren habe ich in den ?Philosophischen Monatsheften? eine Reihe von Aufsatzen uber die ?Psychologie der Komik? zu veroffentlichen begonnen. Teils eigenes Bedurfnis, teils der Wunsch anderer, hat mich zu einer Umarbeitung und Erweiterung dieser Aufsatze veranlasst. Daraus ist schliesslich dies Buch geworden.

THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA. The Maroons! It was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some fresh foray of those unconquered guerrillas swept down from the outlying plantations, startled the Assembly from its order, Gen. Williamson from his billiards, and Lord Balcarres from his diplomatic ease, endangering, according to the official statement, ?public credit,? ?civil rights,? and ?the prosperity, if not the very existe...

Preface: The lectures that follow were delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, at Columbia University, in New York. They are printed as delivered, without developments or notes. The pragmatic movement, so-called?I do not like the name, but apparently it is too late to change it?seems to have rather suddenly precipitated itself out of the air. A number of tendencies that have always existed in philosophy have all a...

Worin von Prozessen, Justizraten die Rede; nebst einer stillschweigenden Abhandlung: ?Was von Traumen zu halten sei?? Dieser zweite Teil der Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan erscheint um ein volliges Halbjahr zu spat. Angenehm ist es dem Herausgeber, wenn die Leser des ersten sich daruber gewundert, am angenehmsten, wenn sie sich daruber geargert haben; es zeigt dies eine gewisse Vorliebe fur die schriftstellerischen Versuche des Satan, die nicht nur ihm, sondern ...

There are few figures in history who have individually exercised so great an influence upon events as William Wallace and Robert Bruce. It was to the extraordinary personal courage, indomitable perseverance, and immense energy of these two men that Scotland ?

Preface: This edition of his ?Poetical Works? contains all Shelley?s ascertained poems and fragments of verse that have hitherto appeared in print. In preparing the volume I have worked as far as possible on the principle of recognizing the editio princeps as the primary textual authority. I have not been content to reprint Mrs. Shelley?s recension of 1839, or that of any subsequent editor of the ?Poems? The present text is the result of a fresh collation of the early ed...

Myself, I do not believe this story. Six persons are persuaded of its truth; and the hope of these six is to convince themselves it was an hallucination. Their difficulty is there are six of them. Each one alone perceives clearly that it never could have

On the 22nd of March, 1819, about nine o?clock in the morning, a young man, some twenty-three or twenty-four years old, wearing the dress of a German student, which consists of a short frock-coat with silk braiding, tight trousers, and high boots, paused

LENOBLE OF BEAUBOCAGE. In the days when the Bourbon reigned over Gaul, before the ?simple, sensuous, passionate? verse of Alfred de Musset had succeeded the debonnaire Muse of Beranger in the affections of young France, in days when the site of the Trocadero was a remote and undiscovered country, and the word ?exposition? unknown in the Academic dictionary, and the Gallic Augustus destined to rebuild the city yet an exile, a young law-student boarded, in common with othe...

Mommsen?s Roemische Geschichte contains some (ancient) Greek quotations.

Introductory Note: In 1775, when Goethe was twenty-six, and before he went to Weimar, he began to write ?Egmont? After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina. The cabin reeked of corn-pone and bacon, and the odor of pelts. It had two shakedowns, on one of wh...