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# The Way of All Flesh

The Way of all Flesh
Uniform with this Volume
Erewhon; or, Over the Range Tenth Revised Edition
Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years later Second Edition
The Way of all Flesh
By
Samuel Butler
Author of "Erewhon"
"We know that all things work together for good to them that love God."—Rom. viii. 28
London
Grant Richards
1903
* Preface
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 15
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 17
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 19
* Chapter 20
* Chapter 21
* Chapter 22
* Chapter 23
* Chapter 24
* Chapter 25
* Chapter 26
* Chapter 27
* Chapter 28
* Chapter 29
* Chapter 30
* Chapter 31
* Chapter 32
* Chapter 33
* Chapter 34
* Chapter 35
* Chapter 36
* Chapter 37
* Chapter 38
* Chapter 39
* Chapter 40
* Chapter 41
* Chapter 42
* Chapter 43
* Chapter 44
* Chapter 45
* Chapter 46
* Chapter 47
* Chapter 48
* Chapter 49
* Chapter 50
* Chapter 51
* Chapter 52
* Chapter 53
* Chapter 54
* Chapter 55
* Chapter 56
* Chapter 57
* Chapter 58
* Chapter 59
* Chapter 60
* Chapter 61
* Chapter 62
* Chapter 63
* Chapter 64
* Chapter 65
* Chapter 66
* Chapter 67
* Chapter 68
* Chapter 69
* Chapter 70
* Chapter 71
* Chapter 72
* Chapter 73
* Chapter 74
* Chapter 75
* Chapter 76
* Chapter 77
* Chapter 78
* Chapter 79
* Chapter 80
* Chapter 81
* Chapter 82
* Chapter 83
* Chapter 84
* Chapter 85
* Chapter 86
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# The Way I read a Letter's—this—

* "The way I read a letter's this" in Poems: Second Series (1891)
* "The way I read a letter's this" in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1924)
# The Yellow Book/Volume 1/The Head of Minos

The Head of Minos
By J. T. Nettleship
Reproduced by the Swan Electric Engraving Company
# The Yellow Book/Volume 1/The Reflected Faun

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​The Reflected Faun
By Laurence Housman
Reproduced by Messrs. Carl Hentschel & Co.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Yellow Book/Volume 1/The Frontier

​Two Sonnets
By William Watson
I—The Frontier
At the hushed brink of twilight,—when, as though
Some solemn journeying phantom paused to lay
An ominous finger on the awestruck day,
Earth holds her breath till that great presence go,— A moment comes of visionary glow,
Pendulous 'twixt the gold hour and the grey,
Lovelier than these, more eloquent than they
Of memory, foresight, and life's ebb and flow.
So have I known, in some fair woman's face,
While viewless yet was Time's more gross imprint,
The first, faint, hesitant, elusive hint
Of that invasion of the vandal years
Seem deeper beauty than youth's cloudless grace,
Wake subtler dreams, and touch me nigh to tears.
# The Yellow Book/Volume 1/The Old Oxford Music Hall

​The Old Oxford Music Hall
By Walter Sickert
Reproduced by the Swan Electric Engraving Company
# The Yellow Book/Volume 1/Stella Maris

​Stella Maris
By Arthur Symons
Why is it I remember yet You, of all women one has met In random wayfare, as one meets The chance romances of the streets, The Juliet of a night? I know Your heart holds many a Romeo. And I, who call to mind your face In so serene a pausing-place, Where the bright pure expanse of sea, The shadowy shore's austerity, Seems a reproach to you and me, I too have sought on many a breast The ecstasy of love's unrest, I too have had my dreams, and met (Ah me!) how many a Juliet. Why is it, then, that I recall You, neither first nor last of all?
For, surely as I see to-night The glancing of the lighthouse light, Against the sky, across the bay, As turn by turn it falls my way,
So surely do I see your eyes Out of the empty night arise, Child, you arise and smile to me Out of the night, out of the sea, The Nereid of a moment there, And is it seaweed in your hair?   O lost and wrecked, how long ago, Out of the drowned past, I know, You come to call me, come to claim My share of your delicious shame. Child, I remember, and can tell One night we loved each other well; And one night's love, at least or most, Is not so small a thing to boast. You were adorable, and I Adored you to infinity, That nuptial night too briefly borne To the oblivion of morn. Oh, no oblivion! for I feel Your lips deliriously steal Along my neck, and fasten there; feel the perfume of your hair, And your soft breast that heaves and dips, Desiring my desirous lips, And that ineffable delight When souls turn bodies, and unite In the intolerable, the whole Rapture of the embodied soul.
That joy was ours, we passed it by; You have forgotten me, and I
Remember you thus strangely, won An instant from oblivion. And I, remembering, would declare That joy, not shame, is ours to share, Joy that we had the will and power, In spite of fate, to snatch one hour, Out of vague nights, and days at strife, So infinitely full of life. And 'tis for this I see you rise, A wraith, with starlight in your eyes,
Here, where the drowsy-minded mood Is one with Nature's solitude; For this, for this, you come to me Out of the night, out of the sea.
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# The Young Woman's Wish

THE
Young Woman's WISH.
To which is added,
Pretty NANCY of LONDON.
A PASTORAL SONG.
The QUEEN of the MAY.
The GREEN GARTERS.
The MAID'S ANSWER.
The JOLLY WOOD-CUTTER.
Entered according to Order.
* The Young Woman's Wish
* Pretty Nancy of London
* A Pastoral Song
* The Queen of the May
* The Green Garters
* The Faint-Hearted Batchelor or, Blankets and Pins
* The Maid's Answer
* The Jolly Wood-Cutter
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# The Younger Edda (tr. Anderson)

Known also as the Prose Edda or Snorri's Edda is an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology. Its purpose was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in skaldic poetry.
The work was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around 1220. Seven manuscripts, dating from around 1300 to around 1600, have independent textual value.
THE YOUNGER EDDA:
ALSO CALLED
SNORRE'S EDDA, OR THE PROSE EDDA.
AN ENGLISH VERSION OF THE FOREWORD; THE FOOLING OF GYLFE, THE AFTERWORD; BRAGE'S TALK, THE
AFTERWORD TO BRAGE'S TALK, AND THE IMPORTANT PASSAGES IN THE POETICAL DICTION (SKALDSKAPARMAL),
WITH AN
INTRODUCTION, NOTES, VOCABULARY, AND INDEX.
By RASMUS B. ANDERSON,
PROFESSOR OF THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF
WISCONSIN, AUTHOR OF "AMERICA NOT DISCOVERED BY COLUMBUS," "NORSE MYTHOLOGY," "DEN NORSKE MAALSAG," "VIKING TALES OF THE NORTH." ETC.
CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO. 1880.
Copyright, 1879,
By S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.
DONOHUE & HENNEBERRY, BINDERS, CHICAGO.
TO
HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN.
CONTENTS.
This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.
# The Young Woman's Wish/The Jolly Wood-Cutter

FINIS.
# The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box was first published in June 1889, and reprinted in July and August of that year. This transcription is of one of these three printings. The story, which was begun in 1887 by Lloyd Osbourne (Stevenson's step-son), was provisionally titled The Finsbury Tontine, then A Game of Bluff, before finally becoming The Wrong Box prior to first publication.
—Based on A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (1903), by William Francis Prideaux, pp.67-68.
THE
WRONG BOX
BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Author of 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' &c
AND
LLOYD OSBOURNE
LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1889
All rights reserved
PREFACE
'Nothing like a little judicious levity,' says Michael Finsbury in the text: nor can any better excuse be found for the volume in the reader's hand. The authors can but add that one of them is old enough to be ashamed of himself, and the other young enough to learn better.
R. L. S. L. O.
CONTENTS.
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The longest-living author of this work died in 1947, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 76 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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# The Way of All Flesh/Preface

Note.
Samuel Butler began to write "The Way of all Flesh" about the year 1872, and was engaged upon it intermittently until 1884. It is therefore, to a great extent, contemporaneous with "Life and Habit," and may be taken as a practical illustration of the theory of heredity embodied in that book. He did not work at it after 1884, but for various reasons he postponed its publication. He was occupied in other ways, and he professed himself dissatisfied with it as a whole, and always intended to rewrite or at any rate to revise it. His death in 1902 prevented him from doing this, and on his death-bed he gave me clearly to understand that he wished it to be published in its present form. I found that the MS. of the fourth and fifth chapters had disappeared, but by consulting and comparing various notes and sketches, which remained among his papers, I have been able to supply the missing chapters in a form which I believe does not differ materially from that which he finally adopted. With regard to the chronology of the events recorded, the reader will do well to bear in mind that the main body of the novel is supposed to have been written in the year 1867, and the last chapter added as a postscript in 1882.
R. A. Streatfeild.
# The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary/Appendices

* War and Christianity
* The Choice of East and West
# The story of Jack and the Giants

THE STORY
OF
Jack and the Giants.
ILLUSTRATED WITH
Thirty-Five Drawings by Richard Doyle.
Engraved by G. and E. Dalziel.
LONDON:
CUNDALL & ADDEY, 21 OLD BOND STREET.
1851.
London: Printed by Robson, Levey, and Franklyn, Great New Street, Fetter Lane.
| Jack listeneth to Stories of Giants and Fairies Title-page. | page |
| Jack at Rest. Initial | 9 |
| The Giant cometh | 10 |
| Cormoran carryeth off his Booty | 11 |
| Panick of the Shepherd. Initial | 13 |
| By Stratagem of a Pit Jack killeth the Giant Cormoran Frontispiece | |
| The Justices present unto Jack a Sword and Belt | 15 |
| A Giant looketh out for Jack. Initial | 19 |
| The deceitful Civility of the Welsh Giant | 21 |
| He partaketh of this Pudding with Jack | 23 |
| Jack measureth with the Legs of a Giant. Initial | 25 |
| Jack alarmeth his Three-headed Uncle | 28 |
| Jack delivereth the Lady from the Enchanter | 29 ​ |
| Jack is dubbed a Knight by King Arthur | 30 |
| He is accoutred by Ladies. Initial | 31 |
| He discovereth a Giant above the Trees | 32 |
| Jack slayeth the Giant, and delivereth a Knight and his Lady | 33 |
| Jack setteth his foot on the Giant’s neck. Initial | 35 |
| The Giant’s Brother awaiteth his return | 37 |
| The Knight and his Lady thank Jack for their delivery | 38 |
| Jack releaseth the captive Ladies | 39 |
| A pale Herald interrupteth the Feast | 41 |
| The Stratagem of Jack with Giant Thundel | 45 |
| Jack maketh sport of Him, and draggeth Him out of the Moat | 46, 47 |
| His Head goeth to Court | 49 |
| The Lady of the Knight. Initial | 50 |
| The Giant Galligantus | 51 |
| Jack passeth the Fiery Griffins | 52 |
| Destruction of Galligantus | 53 |
| Jack goeth with Company to Court | 55 |
| Jack slaketh his Thirst at the end of his Labours | 56 |

## Contents

* Part the First
* Part the Second
* Part the Third
* Part the Fourth
# The story of Jack and the Giants/Part 4

PART THE FOURTH.
OURTED and flattered as he was, yet after staying with the Knight and his lady for some time, Jack grew weary of such an idle life, and set out again in search of new adventures. He went over hills and dales without meeting any, till he came to the foot of a very high mountain. Here he knocked at the door of a small and lonely house, and an old man, with a head as white as snow, let him in.
"Good father," said Jack, "can you lodge a traveller who has lost his way?"
"Yes," said the hermit, "I can, if you will accept such fare as my poor house affords."
Jack entered, and the old man set before him some bread and fruit for his supper. When Jack had eaten as much as he chose, the hermit said,—
Jack promised that, in the morning, at the risk of his life, he would break the enchantment; and, after a sound sleep, he arose early, put on his invisible coat, and got ready for the attempt. When he had climbed to the top of the mountain, he saw the two fiery Griffins; but he passed between them
without the least fear of danger, for they could not see him because of his invisible coat. On the Castle-gate hung a golden trumpet, under which were these lines:—
"Whoever doth this Trumpet blow, Shall cause the Giant’s overthrow!"
As soon as Jack had read this, he seized the trumpet, and blew a shrill blast, which made the gates fly open, and the very Castle itself tremble. The Giant and the Conjuror now knew that their wicked course was at an end, and they stood biting their thumbs, and shaking with fear. Jack, with his sword of sharpness, soon killed the Giant; and the Magician was then carried away by a whirlwind; and every knight and beautiful lady, who had been changed into birds and beasts, returned to their proper shapes. The Castle vanished away
like smoke, and the head of the Giant Galligantus was sent to King Arthur. The knights and ladies rested that night at the old man's hermitage, and next day set out for the Court.
​Jack then went up to the King, and gave his majesty an account of all his fierce battles. Jack's fame had spread through the whole country; and, at the King’s desire, the Duke gave him his daughter in marriage, to the joy of all the kingdom. After this, the King gave Jack a large estate, on which he and his lady lived the rest of their days in joy and content.
Robson, Levey, and Franklyn, Great New Street, Fetter Lane.
# The story of Jack and the Giants/Front matter

* Page 15.
* THE DEATH OF THE GIANT CORMORAN
* LONDON: CUNDALL & ADDEY, OLD BOND STREET.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Jonathan Swift to William King - 9

TO ARCHBISHOP KING.
I HAD your grace's letter not until this day: whether it lay in the secretary's office, or was kept by the wind, I cannot tell; but I would have exposed it immediately whenever it had come. Mr. Southwell told me two days ago of the letter your grace mentions, which surprised me a good deal, when I remembered I had writ to your grace three weeks ago, that the queen had absolutely granted the first-fruits and twentieths, and that Mr. Harley had permitted me to signify the same to the primate and your grace. Perhaps that letter might not have reached your grace before that resolution of sending to the duke of Ormond; but however, I gave you such an account of my reception from Mr. Harley, and his readiness to undertake this affair, and what ​steps he had already made in it, as I thought would have given you some sight in what way the business was; but Mr. Harley charged me to tell nobody alive what the queen had resolved on, till he gave me leave; and by the conclusion of a former letter, your grace might see you were to expect some farther intelligence very soon. Your grace may remember, that upon your telling me how backward the bishops were in giving me a power, I was very unwilling to go at all, and sent the dean of St. Patrick's to tell you so; but you thought I could not handsomely put it off, when things were gone so far. Your objection then, about the disadvantage I lay under in point of party, I know well enough how to answer, otherwise nothing should have prevailed on me to come hither; and if my lords the bishops doubt whether I have any credit with the present ministry, I will, if they please, undo this matter in as little time as I have done it. I did reckon your grace understood and believed me in what I said; and I reckon so still: but I will not be at the pains of undeceiving so many. I never proposed to myself either credit or profit by my labour, but the satisfaction of doing good, without valuing whether I had the merit of it or not: but the method now taking was the likeliest way to set all things backward, if it were not past danger. It shall be my business (until my lords the bishops forbid me to engage farther) to prevent any misunderstanding with Mr. Harley by this sudden step. The thing was all done before the duke of Ormond was named for lord lieutenant, so there was no affront at all to him; and Mr. Harley told me more than once, that such an interest was the properest, because he thought the ​queen herself should have the doing of it: but I said a great deal of this in former letters. If your grace has any commands for me of your own, I shall obey them with all cheerfulness, being, with great respect,
My lord,
your grace's most obedient
and most humble servant,
J. SWIFT.
* ↑ Dated Nov. 2.
* ↑ To the duke of Ormond probably.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Joseph Addison to Jonathan Swift - 1

MR. ADDISON TO DR. SWIFT.
MR. Frowde tells me, that you design me the honour of a visit to morrow morning; but my lord Sunderland having directed me to wait on him at nine o'clock, I shall take it as a particular favour, if you will give me your company at the George in Pall Mall about two in the afternoon, when I may hope to enjoy your conversation more at leisure, which I set a very great value upon. I am, sir, your most obedient humble servant.
J. ADDISON.
Mr. Steele and Frowde will dine with us.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Jonathan Swift to William King - 8

TO ARCHBISHOP KING.
I AM most unhappily engaged this night, where I cannot write to your grace so long a letter as I intended: but I will make it up in a post or two. I have only now to tell you, that Mr. Harley has given me leave to acquaint my lord primate and your grace, that the queen has granted the first-fruits and twentieth parts to the clergy of Ireland. It was done above a fortnight ago; but I was then obliged to keep it a secret, as I hinted to your grace in my last letter. He has now given me leave to let your grace and my lord primate know it; only desires you will say nothing of it until a letter comes to you from my lord Dartmouth, secretary of state. All I know yet is, that the bishops are to be made a corporation for the disposal of the first-fruits, and that the twentieth parts are to be remitted. I will write to your grace the particulars of my negotiation, and some other amusements very soon. I humbly beg your grace to acquaint my lord primate with this. I had your grace's letter last post; and you will now see that your letters to the archbishop here are unnecessary. I was a little in pain about the duke of Ormond, who, I feared, might interpose in this matter, and be angry it was done without him: but Mr. Harley ​has very kindly taken this matter upon himself. It was yesterday I dined with him, and he told me all this; and tomorrow I dine with him again, where I may hear more. I shall obey your grace's directions, whether my stay here be farther necessary, after you have had the letter from the secretary's office. I know not what it will be; but, if any forms remain to finish, I shall be ready to assist in it as I have hitherto done. I have all the reason in the world to be satisfied with Mr. Harley's conduct in this whole affair. In three days he spoke of it to the queen, and gave her my memorial, and so continued until he got her grant. I am now in much company, and steal this time to write to your grace. The queen was resolved to have the whole merit of this affair to herself. Mr. Harley advised her to it; and next to her majesty, he is the only person to be thanked. I suppose it will not be many days before you have the letter from my lord Dartmouth; and your grace will afterward signify your commands, if you have any for me. I shall go to the office, and see that a dispatch be made as soon as possible.
I am, with the greatest respect,
my Lord,
your grace's
most dutiful and most
obedient humble servant,
J. SWIFT.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Joseph Addison to Jonathan Swift - 2

MR. ADDISON TO DR. SWIFT.
I AM in a very great hurry of business, but cannot forbear thanking you for your letter at Chester, which was the only entertainment I met with in that place. I hope to see you very suddenly, and will wait on our friend the bishop of Clogher as soon as I can possibly. I have had just time to tell him, en passant, that you were well. I long to see you, and am, dear Sir, your most faithful, and most obedient servant,
J. ADDISON.
We arrived yesterday at Dublin.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Joseph Addison to Jonathan Swift - 6

MR. ADDISON TO DR. SWIFT.
ABOUT two days ago I received the enclosed, that is sealed up, and yesterday that of my friend Steele, which requiring a speedy answer, I have sent you express. In the mean time I have let him know, that you are out of town, and that he may expect your answer by the next post. I fancy he had my lord Halifax's authority for writing. I hope this will bring you to town. For your amusement by the way, I have sent you some of this day's news; to which I must add, that Drs. Bysse and Robinson are likely to be the bishops of Bristol and St. David's: that our politicians are startled at the breaking off the negotiations, and fall of stocks; insomuch that it is thought they will not venture at dissolving the parliament in such a crisis. I am ever, dear sir, your's entirely,
J. ADDISON.
Mr. Steele desires me to seal your's before I deliver it, but this you will excuse in one, who wishes you as well as he, or any body living can do.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Jonathan Swift to William Swift - 1

TO MR. WILLIAM SWIFT.
MY sister told me you was pleased (when she was here) to wonder I did so seldom write to you. I .... been so kind to impute it neither to ill mann .... respect. I always .... thought that sufficient from one who has always been but too troublesome to you. Besides, I know your aversion to impertinence, and God knows so very private a life as mine can furnish a letter with little else, for I often am two or three months without seeing any body beside the family; and now my sister is gone, I am likely to be more solitary than before. I am still to thank you for your care in my testimonium; and it was to very good purpose, for I never was more satisfied than in the behaviour of the university of Oxford to me. I had all the civilities I could wish for, and so many .... favours, that I am ashamed to have been more obliged in a few weeks to strangers, than ever I was in seven years to Dublin college. I am not to take orders till the king gives me a prebend; and sir William Temple, though he promises me the certainty of it, yet is less forward than I could wish, because (I suppose) he believes I shall leave him, and, upon some accounts, he thinks me a little ​necessary to him. If I were .... entertainment, or doing you any satisfaction by my letters, I should be very glad to perform it that way, as I am bound to do it by all others. I am sorry my fortune should fling me so far from the best of my relations; but hope that I shall have the happiness to see you some time or other. Pray my humble service to my good aunt, and the rest of my relations, if you please.
* ↑ This letter to his uncle (though somewhat imperfect, and manifestly written in a hurry) certainly merits our regard, as helping to clear up seme passages in the writer's life.
* ↑ Dr. Swift was at this time employed in revising sir William Temple's works for the press.