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...works of the renegade Defoe, they started the novel off with a reputation from which it has barely recovered. During the eighteenth century especially it fared evilly among the colonists of the New World; in fact the stern-eyed Puritans were wont to frown upon it as the very text book of the devil himself. Even Thomas Jefferson, though a Virginian and a liberal democrat, felt called upon to declare that "a great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed." It would...
...sentences from stenographic minutes of the White House conference with the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and thirty-seven addresses delivered by Mr. Wilson during his western tour in 1919 when the Treaty was before the Senate, and so arranged and combined them that they form a continuous text. To this have been appended, in full, the Covenant and two addresses he delivered before the Peace Conference at Paris, and official cablegrams containing suggestions later embodied in the Covenant, from former President Taft and former Secretary of State Root...
...marvelous humor, wistful whimsicality and delicious irony of the text have been masterfully transferred into the music. Children enjoy most the passages which eloquently describe the "beamish boy's" conquest of the Jabberwock...
...text of Bishop Lawrence's address follows...
Harvard Committee of Classical Instructors: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 34. A text containing "The Peloponnesos in the Bronze Age" by J. P. Harland and "A New Approach to the Text of Pliny's Letters" by E. K. Rand...