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...This is a novel compiled of three different volumes of short stories by the author Dusan Gojkov. Dusan Gojkov is an accomplished writer and poet of several different books which also contain a collection of short stories....

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...uz šuštanje i pucketanje telefonske linije. ...Fill high the bowl with Samian wine... ...We will not think of themes like these... Budim se i zna... ...ta, i videvši moj Gauloises pita: - Vous êtes Français? - Non, je suis Yougoslave, et Madmoiseille est Sud-Africaine. - Logique. Deux fascistes ens... ...ko je ovde crnac, zapravo?» Uĉim N. da jede štapićima. La nuit. Une étoile caresse le sein d'une Sud-Africaine. 22 Na televiziji jezuit... ...upo, voleo bih da je i nama holesterol najveći nacionalni neprijatelj.) The Little Emotional Dictionary of Current American English: refrigerat... ... sedi za stolom, ĉita knjigu i jede. Ali to je sprat niţe. Kopi Cafe u Klark Stitu. (A first decent cup of tea, since.) Na zidovima satovi, pokaz... ... Director's assistant at Radio Belgrade Drama programme. Plays a piano and bass in jazz band. Composing music for three theatre plays. 1983 Arm... ...ent for Radio Belgrade and Belgrade daily «Politika» writes from Europe, Mediterranean, Near and Far East, Africa, former 3 Soviet Union, Asia, ...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...en a month ago that Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this... ...wife and children unbearable, and even his hobby of playing a cello was as a musical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair... ...crawl like worms, pushing their carts and singing their songs as traditional music blared forth. He died every time he saw one of them. He yearned for... ...ned to tapping that seemed more like rain. Her thoughts rambled on: "800,000 African children die from dysentery each year and yet the news is about t... ...nd. It was very exciting-more than even a racket ball game with Betty whose African American skin, muscular physique, and strong competitive strife g... ... lap and you guys could make any political cartoon on him you pleased." The Africans once said that the military cost of their civil wars were the re...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the Second Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among ...

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...s Series Publication Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragmen... ...here everything delightful and valuable was at her service, feasts spread, music playing, all her wishes fulfilled, but all by in- visible hands. At n... ...t I knew not how to explain.” “No doubt,” said Harriet. “I was sick of the music and folly, and had retired to the summerhouse with Peggy Duckworth, w... ...g tears. In the midst, there fell on her ears a low strain of melan- choly music rising and falling like the wailing of mournful spirits. She sprang t...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

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...Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...erywhere man has found God. But nowhere, save on this half-European, half- African ledge of rock could you find so many different har- monies, combini... ...arbour; and lastly, in the stillness of falling night, listen to the organ music, the chanting of the services, the wonderful sound of bells pealing o... ...ough their one point of contact with humanity. Strangely enough, the organ music seemed to be- long to the school of Rossini, the musician who brings ... ... their number and extent, will re- ceive the reverence due to the Homer of music. From among all the scores that we owe to his great genius, the nun s... ...ct of great importance, he turned his attention to that unexplored Central Africa which occu- pies the learned of today. The scientific expedition was... ...reat sacrifices made in his travels were all forgotten like his studies of African dialects, his discover- ies, and observations. One story will give ...

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Excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...e Quincey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...f any pleasures approaching to the intellectual ones of an Englishman. For music is an intellectual or a sensual plea- sure according to the temperame... ...” I do not recollect more than one thing said adequately on the subject of music in all lit- erature; it is a passage in the Religio Medici 14 of Sir... ... has also a philosophic value, inasmuch as it points to the true theory of musical effects. The mistake of most people is to suppose 47 Thomas de Qui... ...an can pre- tend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tribes elsewhere, affect him in the way that he is aff...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ..., where a single false note, a single word in a wrong key, ruins the whole music; and, secondly, I desire him to consider the utter sterility of unive... ... so much in request among us. It ruled us and swayed us as mysteriously as music. Our younger nurse, whom we all loved, would sometimes, according to ... ...-sustained. These visions needed not that any sound should speak to me, or music mould my feelings. The hint from the litany, the fragment from the cl... ...lf. At the opening of the tale, a magician living in the central depths of Africa is introduced to us as one made aware by his secret art of an enchan...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

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...--Afternoon Talks-- A year already, maybe even two, Lazar is sleeping only with other men's women. Not all of them are married but they are always tied to other men. Very quickly, they meet their boyfriends, fiances or husbands with Lazar. They approve of him and characterize him as harmless. "With Lazar, nothing could happen t...

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...lje 212, Narodno pozorište, at Television Belgrade, as well as in couple of movies. Director's assistant at Radio Belgrade Drama programme. Plays... ...lgrade Drama programme. Plays a piano and bass in jazz band. Composing music for three theatre plays. 1983 Army service. 1984 Radio Belgrade «f... ...plays. 1983 Army service. 1984 Radio Belgrade «flying reporter». Host of morning programme. Started studies of Classical Archaeology and Cultu... ...arted studies of Classical Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. 1985 Arrested for a first time, d... ...de daily «Politika» writes from Europe, Mediterranean, Near and Far East, Africa, former 3 Soviet Union, Asia, and United States. Stays outside...

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...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set ...

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...“Rise up then, you popish flatterers, one and all! Get busy and defend yourselves against the charges of impiety, tyranny, and lèse-majesté against the gospel, and of the crime of slandering your brethren. You decry as heretics those who refuse to contravene such plain and powerful words of Scripture in order to acknowledge t...

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...ederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courage... ... for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s pro... ... also for its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther dem... ...ok is therefore only a skirmish preliminary to the main engagement, or, as a musician might say, a mere prelude introducing the main theme of the sui... ...9–31. 31 Cf. p. 15. 32 St. Augustine (354–430), bishop of Hippo in North Africa. 33 Sermo 112, cap. 5. Migne 38, 645. 34 Luther’s reference to... ... Besides the celebrant there need be present only a ministrant. There is no music; the mass is only read. 106 The res sacramenti. Cf. p. 23 n. 45. ...

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Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

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........................... 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .......................................................................................................

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...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ................................................................. 33 TWILIGHT MUSIC ........................................................................ ..., Chillanwallah! Where our brothers fought and bled, O thy name is natural music And a dirge above the dead! Though we have not been defeated, Though ... ... thine, Such heart is mine, O thou of mortal visions most divine! TWILIGHT MUSIC Know you the low pervading breeze That softly sings In the trembling ... ...e rage of the havoc wide-mouthed, the bright car superimpending Over Asia, Africa, low down; ruin flaming over the vales; Light disastrous rising sava...

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...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up...

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...that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

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...Excerpt: In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely ...

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...y H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication o... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania ... ...in- vent cities— “I think I must give him a little theatre. “Then there is music!” Redwood thought that over, and decided that his son might best begi... ...ere were the germs of religious feeling somewhere in that big carcase. The music perhaps drew him. He was often in the churchyard on a Sunday morning,... ... should be followed by all that glittering succession of im- pressions the Music Halls of those days were so capable of giving. It was a worthy plan t... ...he Food were to be given a great reserva- tion—in North America perhaps or Africa—in which they might live out their lives in their own fashion. “But ...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the seventh volume of Best of ?. For the past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Commo...

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.................. 18 Anne McBrearty ?When I Grow Up, I Want to Be? .............................................. 21 Patricia J. Popovitch ?Reflections of a City? .......................................................... 24 Jon Robison ?Why Is There Still Terrorism? ......................................................... 26 Anthony R. Souza ?The Designated Hitter Rule? .....

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...Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing Formerly Best of Four Volume 7 Student Voices A Common... ...cy Morrison Associate Editors Liz Wright Suzanne Harper David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...e Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Best of Freshman Writing 2 Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices is a publica... ...her Best of Freshman Writing 25 in a celebration of sound as the talented musicians busk for loose change. As the afternoon continues, children appea... ...m make the short trip on foot to the square to dine early or catch a show. Music spills onto the street from Morrisons Pub, leaving melodic tunes in t... ...arly and begin the cycle again. The stores, the museums, the theaters, the music on the street corners, and the preaching in the square present just s... ...ously affected by the AIDS epidemic, those in developing countries like in Africa. The majority of an article by Jon Cohen discusses the scientific ob... ...re begins his discus- sion with the roots of the AIDS virus, pri- mates in Africa. The fact that the AIDS virus is not only a human disease but can al...

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...Excerpt: The Morte Darthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV., i.e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no manuscript of it has c...

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...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Volume One Conta... ...ation Le Morte D’Arthur: Volume One by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...to India, to Armenia, whereas the river of Euphrates runneth into Asia, to Africa, and Europe the Large, to Ertayne and Elamye, to Araby, Egypt, and t... ...d Maccabaeus were of our lineage. I am right inheri- tor of Alexandria and Africa, and all the out isles, yet will I believe on thy Lord that thou bel... ... none such called in no coun- try, and so on harping and on instruments of music he applied him in his youth for to learn. And after, as he grew in mi...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ... India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indie... ...ins -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of... ...5- 152 CHAPTER XII. Voyages Of Vasco da Gama. -- An ambition to circumnavigate Africa -- King John's belief respecting the continent -- Secret prepara... ...breeze, and when the breeze is blowing will curse the whistlers, lest by their musical efforts a storm should, be provoked. He will not tell the numbe... ...ries of magnificent scenery, composers have made it familiar to the lovers of music in more than one famous opera. The story is told with variations ... ...night was there, nor heat of the sun; pleasant prospects charmed the eye; soft music from unseen sources fascinated the ear; every flower was fragrant...

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...nemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germa...

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... Family and More Family and More - Enemies or Friends? A collection of poems By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Ha... ...By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Harper No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means... ...ut the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of AEG Publishing Group 845 Third Avenue, 6th Floor - 6016 New York, NY 1... ...unger siblings with tales of wonder and fear, running a coffee plantation in Africa, his fervent, passionate dream. A bike glistening silver and new i... ...focus and desire, all that's needed is motivation and a heart truly on fire. Music and art stimulate and please, tapping the keys of flute and clarin... ...ea, easy to talk to, frank and honest, a woman of many talents, professional musician, then a nurse, retraining again when married and two children ap...

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

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...Excerpt: Rumour: Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders r...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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............. 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER ........................................................................................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ...........................................................................................

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...Contents of The Snow Image & Other Stories 4 THE SNOW-IMAGE: A Childish Miracle 19 THE GREAT STONE FACE 37 ETHAN BRAND 53 THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS 62 THE DEVIL IN MANUSCRIPT 69 MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEUX...

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...lectronic Classics Series was founded in August 1997, on the Hazleton campus of the Pennsylvania State University, to provide easily readable and prin... ...t, for their own private use. However, they may not be used for the purposes of reproduction with the intent to make a profit. Nor are they in any way... ... a substitute for traditional, paper books. No electronic media, at the time of this publication (October 1998) has approached the readability of trad... ... with her ears; and thus she is often delighted with the trills of celestial music, when other people can hear nothing of the kind. “Peony, Peony!” cr... ...dow of the Arctic Circle, sent him their trib ute in the shape of furs; hot Africa sifted for him the golden sands of her rivers, and gathered up the... ...etimes it rumbled like the thunder; some times it warbled like the sweetest music. It was the blast of war, the song of peace; and it seemed to have ... ...ssed, was marvellous. We must not forget to mention that there was a band of music, which made the echoes of the mountains ring and reverberate with t...

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...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...she soon drew away and left me to her lord, who talked of French politics, Africa, and domestic economy with great vivacity. From Ostend a smoking-hot... ...rfect thing in the world – the only marriage of really accordant words and music – both drunk with the same poignant, unutterable sentiment. To-day in... ...old, blind fishes. Now and then these cellars opened up into sort of domed music-hall places, where one could land for a little on the slope of the or... ...e, for the sound was delightful to me. ‘Ah,’ says he, ‘you’re very fond of music.’ I said I was. ‘Yes, I could tell that by your head,’ he answered. ...

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...Excerpt: This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possibl...

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...s Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... go, all four together, without a signal from any one of us, always to the music of the Kur orchestra, always in the temperate sunshine, or, if it rai... ... it can’t be gone. You can’t kill a minuet de la cour. You may shut up the music-book, close the harpsichord; in the cupboard and presses the rats may... ...sacred name of my creator that it was true. It was true sunshine; the true music; the true splash of the foun- tains from the mouth of stone dolphins.... ...been given a thin-shelled pullet’s egg to carry on my palm from Equatorial Africa to Hoboken. Yes, she became for me, as it were, the subject of a bet... ...-colonel during the shuffling of troops that went on just before the South African War. He was sent off somewhere else and, of course, Mrs Basil could... ...owers or tending an embroidery frame. Or, she desired to go with Edward to Africa and to throw herself in the path of a charging lion so that Edward m...

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ls faster than the flying showers upon the moun- tain-side, faster ‘than a musician scatters sounds;’ in which ‘it was’ and ‘it is not’ are words of t... ...al bands. Attracted by one of these, Catalina was quietly listening to the music, when some street ruffians, in derision of the gay colors and the for... ...nnocent voluptuousness of *‘Creole.’—At that time the infusion of negro or African blood was small. Consequently none of the negro hideous- ness was d... ... complications of descent from three original strands, European, American, African, the distinctions of social consideration founded on them bred name... ...to the morning air. Kate had now no time to send back her compliments in a musical halloo. The Alcalde missed break- ing his neck on this occasion ver... ...e possessed the great Dictator’s presence of mind; for he, when landing in Africa, having happened to stumble—an omen of the worst character, in Roman...

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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depend...

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...ns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e roams hunting among the mountains and thickets and streams, how he makes music at dusk while returning from the chase, and how he joins in dancing w... ...y. (22) i.e. the octopus or cuttle. (23) i.e. the darker-skinned people of Africa, the Egyptians or Aethiopians. (24) i.e. an old man walking with a s... ...nd Phoebus Apollo laughed for joy; for the sweet throb of the marvel- lous music went to his heart, and a soft longing took hold on his soul as he lis...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ...werful example of animal instincts was shown in the work of Eugene Marais. I‘m sure you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds in Africa... ... that stimulates the brain. Or another possibility is that different people react differently to aggression. On another track, when classical music ... ...genes. There is also a great deal of animal research that points to the existence of instincts. ―We mentioned Robert Ardrey‘s book ‗Africa... ...ned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South Africa... ...s photos can indicate anti-social feelings. 60 ―The popular male music ... ... more about the most effective techniques of love-making, or should we say ‗sexing?‘ We find romantic love as the central theme of the arts, music,...

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...mber Production Manufacturing Jobs Electronic Tree Tracking/ Secured Chain of Custody Research & Development Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Pro... ... Camp Smith (Pacifc Command for all U.S. armed f orces from California to Africa’s east coast, f rom Arctic to Antarctica) 10 Marine Corps Base Ha... ...38.6% Mixed Race 23.6% Native Hawaiian or Pacifc Islander 10% Black or African American 1.6% Other 1.5% HAWAI‘I’S POPULATION BY RACE State Popula... ...aring, education and organization, a traditional lifestyle redolent with music and dance, and a special relationship to the land and water. HAWAII... ... the world today for graceful, swaying movements and hauntingly romantic music. Most people know that hula is a form of storytelling in dance. The... ...iian culture by encouraging participation in traditional Hawaiian dance, music, chant, and arts and crafts. By perpetuating the culture and giving ...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...and poison brewing, and choking by sulphur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to... ...es. Gay mansions, with supper rooms and dancing rooms, are full of light and music and high swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with contin ual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glocken 32 SARTOR RESARTUS s... ...ad you to the end of the World! “Why mention our Swallows, which, out of far Africa, as I learned, threading their way over seas and mountains, corpor... ...e; for who would speak, or be looked on, when behind him lies all Europe and Africa, fast asleep, except the watchmen; and before him the silent Immen... ...when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo Jumbo and In dian Pawaw be utterly abolished. For all thin...

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...rite a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for y...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly Scotchman, spiritually a little weath...

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...n Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ith other craft but still a convinced son of the Free Church and the North African Mission, with a faithful brown eye, and a peaceful soul. Physi- cal... ...s impoassible: th’ would oall b’ murrdered. Morocco is not lek the rest of Africa. DRINKWATER. No, gavner: these eah Moors ez their reli- gion; an it ... ...orry to have to warn you, Mr. Rankin, that Lady Cicely, from travelling in Africa, has acquired a habit of walking into people’s houses and behaving a... ...e dialect of the missionary. There is no literary nota- tion for the grave music of good Scotch. Blackdown, August 1900 T o return to the Electronic ...

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........................................................................................................................................... 22 AN AFFAIR OF STATE............................................................................................................................................... 36 THE ARTIST ..............................................................

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltair...

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...S......................................................................................................................... 16 LETTER V.?ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND .................................................................................................. 20 LETTER VI.?ON THE PRESBYTERIANS....................................................................................

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...n Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...that Mahomet, though so ignorant, should have given a religion to Asia and Africa, and that Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Clark, Mr. Locke, Mr. Le Clerc, etc.... ...endeavoured to lessen the character of that great comic poet. Such Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves persons of no char- acter or abil... ...u would have but an imperfect idea of all those works. Poetry is a kind of music in which a man should have some knowledge before he pretends to judge... ...s from those foreign poets, I only prick down, and that imperfectly, their music; but then I cannot express the taste of their harmony. There is one E...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

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...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... many feet beneath his window. He gazed out. With colours flying, and with music sounding, Dalzell, vic- torious, entered Edinburgh. But his banners w... ...aleatory, whether it touch life, or fortune, or renown– whether we explore Africa or only toss for halfpence– that is what I conceive men to love best... ...ayful liberties with Nature. Thus we have ‘Conservation of Force’; where a musician, thinking of a certain picture, improvises in the twilight; a poet... ...king of a certain picture, improvises in the twilight; a poet, hearing the music, goes home inspired, and writes a poem; and then a painter, under the...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...books. A few of them (not necessar- ily books of verse) are melodious; the music some others make for you as you read has the disagree- able emphasis ... ...he earth, on the model of the territo- rial spheres of influence marked in Africa to keep the competitors for the privilege of improving the nigger (a... ...r known in the North Atlantic—even if you have provided them with a little music to get drowned by. Sell less tickets! That’s 206 Notes on Life and L...

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...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hrough the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its h... ...oying in his friend’s suc- cesses; his laugh still ready but with kindlier music; and over all his thoughts the shadow of that unalterable law which h... ... Stevenson CHAPTER VII THE MANSE I HAVE NAMED, among many rivers that make music in my memory, that dirty Water of Leith. Often and often I desire to ... ...e steamer lay at her moorings. All day long there hung about the place the music of chinking tools; and even in the dead of night, the watchman carrie...