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... Sahib, or Adi Granth, is the religious text of Sikhism. It is a voluminous text of 1430 angs, compiled and composed during the period of Sikh gurus, from 1469 to 1708. It is a collection of hymns (shabda) or baani describing the qualities of God and why one should meditate on God's name. Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708), the tenth guru, affirmed the sacred text Adi Granth as...

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...8. Views of different Scholars 39 9. Gems from Gurbaani 42 10. Gurduara Sah... ...as born in the village Talwandi, now called “Nankana Sahib”, situated near Lahore (Pakistan). Right from his childhood, he started questioning the m... ...wandi, now called “Nankana Sahib”, situated near Lahore (Pakistan). Right from his childhood, he started questioning the meaningless rituals and pr... ..., the Tenth Master, put an end to the personal Guruship and declared that from now onwards “Guru Granth Sahib” will be the 5 Guru for Sikhs fore... ...k while Guru Nanak sang his heart-searching hymns to audiences of all the peoples in a language which they spoke and well understood without any di... ... to be the lowliest of all, as I cannot think of associating with the rich people who are full of ego. Moreover, the True Lord also bestows His bles... ...reover, the True Lord also bestows His blessings and Grace on those humble people alone and the God’s 20 benevolence is showered on holy congrega...

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... means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) I... ... 1stBooks - rev. 11/22/02 iii Note to Reader Extracts from investigations, 1835 Major General Sir Willia... ...they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are not the people whom we kill, killed by the orders of KALI... ...head was drawn back by ’The Arm Holder’. The rumel tightened and as the last breath was squeezed from his body, he looked into the face of ‘The Str... ...fe without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with your Helen?’ Audrey Blankenhag... ...f which was still unexplored. Her glimpses of the flora and fauna of the coastal regions and the people of every shade of colour, from pale brown to... ...Mirapore. Here again, I did not mention to the Nawab that dispatches for aid to John Lawrence in Lahore have only just been sent by Lord Canning, ou...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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... Arriving in Indus It was not far from Singaling to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, st... ... the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third Wor... ....‖ 4 —―Mr. Ghosh, we are deeply honored that you would take time from you presidential duties to meet our clan.‖ —―The honor is mine, I ... ...consumer options are limited. ―In India family farming has reduced as people have moved to the cities. It has shrunk in size and quantity, and a... ...water. Shistosomiasis, caused by a fresh water snail, affects 160 million people. That‘s the disease that wiped out Napoleon‘s army in Egypt. Then in... ... arsenic from ground water. You remember that Bangladesh had millions of people exposed to ground water arsenic at 100 times the maximum proposed b... ...Then Kipling used the phrase in writing about another former Indian city, Lahore. . ―But no longer do you see the trucks picking up the 3000 b...

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...e is destruction of all anti peace world forces in attempt to convert this world into peaceful world. All nations live peacefully in the long run. People respect each other’s religious, territorial limits and social taboo. This Novel is an action and adventure based fiction and an attempt to make this world as joint peaceful global village free of discriminations of cas...

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...d Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ..........................................178 5 Rudyard Kipling Plain T ales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling To the Wittiest Woman in India I Dedicate... ...ls.” Whether Christianity improved Lispeth, or whether the gods of her own people would have done as much for her under any circumstances, I do not kn... ... over bad ground to look upon. Lispeth had a Greek face—one of those faces people paint so often, and see so seldom. She was of a pale, ivory color an... ... not abandon it when she reached womanhood, as do some Hill girls. Her own people hated her because she had, they said, become a memsahib and washed h... ...e- ments worth speaking of, and it was nearly a day’s journey to come into Lahore for a dance. People were grateful for small things to interest them.... ...wn his back. He yielded to his luck, and at that point the down-train from Lahore came in carrying one of Golightly’s Majors. This is the Major’s evid...

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...defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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...orm opposite the old Ajaib Gher the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam Zammah, that ‘fire breathing dragon’, hold the ... ...d away, till he came across the woman who took opium and learned the taste from her, and died as poor whites die in India. His estate at death consist... ...thing with an immense success. T rue, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi 5 Rudyard Kipling Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was ... ...ith an immense success. T rue, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi 5 Rudyard Kipling Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in... ...and sounds of the women’s world on the flat roofs, and the headlong flight from housetop to housetop under cover of the hot dark. Then there were holy... ...he sunlight. ‘Is it true that there are many images in the Wonder House of Lahore?’ He repeated the last words as one making sure of an address. ‘That... ...ead to one side, considering and interested. ‘Give me the bowl. I know the people of this city–all who are charitable. Give, and I will bring it back ... ...hild the old man handed him the bowl. [start here] ‘Rest, thou. I know the people.’ He trotted off to the open shop of a kunjri, a low caste vegetable... ..., too, I think that so old a man as thou, speaking the truth to chance met people at dusk, is in great need of a disciple.’ ‘But the River–the River o...

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...Excerpt: To know how to sell, to be able to sell, and to sell. People generally do not suspect how much of the stateliness of Paris is due to these three aspects of the same problem. The brilliant display of shops as rich as the salons of the noblesse before 1789; the splendors of cafes ...

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...oso, nee T rivulzio. TO KNOW HOW TO SELL, to be able to sell, and to sell. People generally do not suspect how much of the stateliness of Paris is due... ...rious namesake, now become the typical commercial traveler. T ake him away from his shop and his line of business, he is like a collapsed balloon; onl... ...ladies wished for a brace- let; they were waiting for the arrival of a man from a great Parisian jeweler. A Gaudissart accordingly appeared with three... ... Prince’s present and the implied compliment to his taste. A woman alights from her splendid carriage before one of the expensive shops where shawls a... ...h a message to deliver urbi et orbi, “Here I reign more tranquilly than at Lahore”? Perhaps but for this immortal analytical study, archaeologists mig... ...ever been worn; they have come by courier direct from the manufacturers at Lahore.” “Oh! I see,” said she; “they are much more like the thing I want.”...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

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...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ...a a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life.* He s... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...he year of Trafalgar), it had been the fixed assumption of the four inside people (as an old tradition of all public car- riages derived from the reig... ...nd before the whole assembled field of astonished spectators from Agra and Lahore, killed the eagle on the spot. Amazement seized the sultan at the un... ...he former history concern- ing the same king.” 15 l OMRAHS … FROM AGRA AND LAHORE: There seems to be a reminiscence here of Wordsworth’s Prelude, Book... ..., 11. 18-20: The Great Mogul, when he Erewhile went forth from Agra or Lahore, Rajahs and Omrahs in his train. Omrah, which is not found in Cent...

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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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... S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE E... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORK... ...ey AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR ... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ...? Do not fancy it peculiar to Hindostan. Before Delhi was, before Agra, or Lahore, might the pariah say, I was. The most interesting, if only as the m...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ...cal exile who had formerly served in the British-Indian aeronautic park at Lahore. The German airship was fish-shaped, with a blunted head; the Asiati...

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...e too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening p... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...ttain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the nat... ... of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...e corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—no... ...d holding tournaments before Queens of Beauty.’ ‘I saw a beautiful girl in Lahore,’ said Kahn, ‘she sat under a golden canopy like a goddess, and thre...

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...ry- ing their produce to market continue the stir of carriages re- turning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sus- tained pause in the g... ...sar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from her sleep by a frightful dream. She had seen her double. She had appea... ...nd the counter. She was asking alms of herself, and heard herself speaking from the doorway and also from her seat at the desk. She tried to grasp her... ... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...tune. The poor Ragonines look to me half-starved of late.” “Bah! all those people want your money.” “But what people, my treasure? Is it your uncle Pi... ...acks of elephants; seated in a muslin cage, he makes love like the King of Lahore. But the little retail merchant is ignorant from whence have come, o...

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...nt that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate’er its mission, the s... ...ission, the soft breeze can come 5 To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now ... ... mind’s 55 Internal echo of the imperfect sound; To both I listened, drawing from them both A cheerful confidence in things to come. Content and not un... ...ver his dear Country; left the deeds Of Wallace, like a family of Ghosts, To people the steep rocks and river banks, Her natural sanctuaries, with a l... ...5 Nor, sedulous as I have been to trace How Nature by extrinsic passion first Peopled the mind with forms sublime or fair, And made me love them, may I... ...t design, the opinions, thoughts, SUMMER V ACATION 57 Of those plain living people now observed With clearer knowledge; with another eye I saw the qu... ...ers Banded beneath the Great Mogul, when he Erewhile went forth from Agra or Lahore, Rajahs and Omrahs in his train, intent 20 To drive their prey enc...

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...olutely without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who ar... ...jority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;... ... the entire speculation, furnishes the surest means of disen- chanting him from the horror which might else gather upon 5 Thomas de Quincey his feeli... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...al purpose of disguise, have taken a hint from this practice of Scinde and Lahore, so that the color might not have been natural. In other respects, h... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...r below-stairs, or in one of the bedrooms above. Immedi- ately a stream of people poured down into the kitchen, where at once they saw the cradle—but ...

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...of ten or twelve Regi- ments and Batteries, and some fifteen hundred other people of the non-official caste. In ten years his knowledge should be doub... ... It is the same everywhere. The men who do not take the trouble to conceal from you their opinion that you are an incompe- tent ass, and the women who... ... When he recovered I sug- gested that he should write out the whole affair from begin- ning to end, knowing that ink might assist him to ease his mind... ...ell me the like. T wo months ago I was the happi- est man in India. Today, from Peshawur to the sea, there is no one more wretched. My doctor and I ar... ... the first plank of the Comber-mere Bridge I had thought over half a dozen people who might have commit- ted such a solecism, and had eventually decid... ...tch of wall opposite Peliti’s. It was broad daylight. The road was full of people; and yet here, look you, in defiance of every law of probability, in... ...vely Thing; a White Lady is supposed to do night-watchman round a house in Lahore; Dalhousie says that one of her houses “repeats” on autumn evenings ...

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...stonished at her R-l H-ss’s question. The P-cess then spoke of some trifle from my pen, which was simply signed Goliah Gahagan. There was, unluckily, ... ...I am obliged always to write the name of Goliah in full, to distinguish me from my brother, Gregory Gahagan, who was also a Major (in the King’s servi... ...better have yielded it at once, when he saw I was deter- mined to have it. From this slight specimen of my adventures, the reader will perceive that m... ... called Bay Ah of Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Sheeny was with the Queen’s people, not in a military capacity, but as representative of an English jou... .... I would to Heaven that the Czar of Muscovy had passed through Cabool and Lahore, and that I with my old Ahmednuggars stood on a fair field to meet h... ...agger?” [Here was a pretty conspiracy!] “No, I saw him, but not alone; his people were always with him.” “Hurrumzadeh! it is a pity; we waited but the... ...was an impostor. “Ho, Begum!” shouted he, in the ante-room (for he and his people could not enter the women’s apartments), “speak, O my daughter! is y...

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... .... I would to heaven that the Czar of Muscovy had passed through Cabool and Lahore, and that I with my old Ahmednuggars stood on a fair field to meet h...

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...r slough the dross of Earth — E’en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth. So... ...waddy chills, An’ a Zulu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We ‘eld our ... ... SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don’t you march with my true love?” “We’re fresh from of... ...me is O’Kelly, I’ve heard the Revelly From Birr to Bareilly, from Leeds to Lahore, Hong-Kong and Peshawur, Lucknow and Etawah, And fifty-five more all... ...us Gods are made, And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him. . . . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — ma... ... 1889 to 1896 129 And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him… . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — man — ... ...ding their neighbours’ tails: — “Our fathers lived in the forest, Foolish people were they, They went down to the cornland To teach the farmers to p...

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...ake is outside the regular course of Nature and Providence; since all good people know that a woman is the only infallible thing in this world, except... ...od talker, even to 8 Under the Deodars his wife in the old days are taken from him by this this kitchen-sink of a Government. That’s the case with ev... ...Is Vanity.” Polly, I thank you. These vermin’ Mrs. Hauksbee waved her hand from the verandah to two men in the crowd below who had raised their hats t... ...d as himself! I want to, of course. I’m tired of everything and everybody, from a moonlight picnic at Seepee to the blandishments of The Mussuck.’ ‘Ye... ...e his face now. Look!’ ‘Otis Yeere! Of all the improbable and impos- sible people! I don’t believe you.’ ‘Hsh! Wait till Mrs. Tarkass begins murdering... ...snakes sticking out, and, in the summer, green flies and green squash. The people would die of fear if you shook a dogwhip at ‘em. But they know you’r... ...kly, he didn’t think much of committees; they had a Municipal Committee at Lahore and had elected a menial servant, an orderly, as a mem- ber. He had ...