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... Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way tha... ...anslations authorized by the Author. 3 Note from the translator: In this text, several of the author’s books are mentioned. Some are alread... ...e mentioned. Some are already available English, and their titles are only in English. Some are in the process of being translated, and their titles... ...ssionate not about the beauty that has already been created by others (the museums are already full of it), but about the beauty that only he or she... ...cylla and Charybdis face each other in the Strait of Messina. The boats and ships that want to pass through the strait have a very hard time unless t... ...mpty, again from emptiness to fullness. Ulysses leaves Troy with twelve ships, with many treasures and many companions. By the time he gets to Ca... ... would have been attributed to him. The secrets contained in the myth were preserved in this way, and now, with the help of Sophia-Art and Cosmo-Art...
... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... This is the 100 yr-old blunder which Science has failed to correct, and has preserved to the present day. Einstein’s idea of a ‘gravitational red-... ...t want to study. And the major result of this unexperienced trauma which was preserved was our worship of volcanoes and fire. Which came first;... ...Life on Earth, this includes the apes that invented and made these things and preserved and perpetuated their use. Balanced and Imbalanced Aware... ...e coast of the Namib-Bi-man Desert is called the Skeleton Coast: populated by ships wrecked by the fogs, treacherous currents, and westerly storms th... ...it, washes it, chemicalizes it, melts it, refines it, turns it into an alloy, ships it around the world to other factories that refine it further, sh... .... The remaining few leaving the failed colony were met by a fleet of English ships just offshore and the convicts were ‘persuaded’ at gunpoint to re...
...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...and drawings have been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading museums in the U.S. and Mexico. Archives of his work and literary correspo... ...hered by the fog or dreaded the arrival of our fleet. I had pictured the ships as fast moving, bright on bright water. As the first one approached,... ...g and unfolding his robe, he spoke about our fleet, how he would have the ships repaired and converted into fishing boats for the use of the communi... ... without my knowledge. Taken to buy Rhodopis. You sold three or four wine ships to pay her price, along with the money taken from me.” “Can’t you f... ...atulate me on the cessation of the war, warm praise now that the union is preserved. Telegrams flood the telegraph office. Boys are always seeking m...
...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...
... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ... neglecting his school friend from the conversation. After visiting a couple museums, Sung Ki gave Sang Huin his beeper number. Sang Huin invited him ... ... He didn't have to do all that much but be able to speak English. He went to museums in Seoul on his free time even though the experience was a bit re... ...that he did it too much. Seoul was felicity, the exhilarating movements, the museums, the symphonies, and the sexual bliss. Within it the hurt was di... ...rom the very desire to cling to it. She wanted to keep Nathaniel in a state preserved from society's lies, guile, opportunism, greed, and barbarity. ... ...l Mexican ballads. In would come George Bush Jr. signs and the American navy ships. It is a choice like the people in Paris, France." Gabriele didn't ...
...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean 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 N...
...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...stige of the past whose principle duties are to open bridges and christen ships? ----―‖But they give a country a figurehead, like a flag, to gi... ...equired by other governmental agencies. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for the city council members. Just cut health... ...think they‘re worth more than murderers. Dolphins have been known to guide ships through unknown and dangerous waters and sometimes they save human l... ...case of a dolphin, I think it was in New Zealand. The dolphin would guide ships through the narrow inlet to the port. Someone took a shot at it so it... ... possible to God's life of love. This is a good thing, and life should be preserved so that people can go on doing this. God will take you when He wa... ...at there is a sanctity in human life does not mean that it must always be preserved. He wrote that the interest in the preservation of human life is...
...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity 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 ...
... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...as in the Library, of course—remarkable collections in some cases, carefully preserved, and sometimes even digitized at public expense. Yet only a tin... ...en imagine it coupled to the efforts of the great state archives and private museums who themselves would be free to do the same thing. Think of the p... ...arket logic to migrate to new areas, disrupting traditional social relation- ships and perhaps even views of the self, or the relationship of human be...
...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ur hand held up before you at noon day. There was Californian gold in the museums and in the goldsmiths’ shops, and the very first time I went upon ‘... ...ubject of the small stock of food on which our lives depended if they were preserved from the great deep, and on the rigid necessity of our eking it o... ... a face! I have heard it broached that orders should be given in great new ships by electric telegraph. I admire machinery as much is any man, and am ...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from N... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...n the ocean when he died, so that he might have gone down among the sunken ships and cargoes of treasure which he was always dreaming about in his lif... ...r’s younger days there used to be a wax figure of him in one of the Boston museums, representing a solemn, dark visaged person, in a minister’s black ... ...came over from England. Sometimes the disease lay hidden in the cargoes of ships, among silks, and brocades, and other costly merchandise which was im... ...ho had caught the contagion from the garments of the sick, almost all were preserved who followed the wise physician’s advice. But the people were not... ...ance had guessed Governor Shirley’s intentions, he would have sent all the ships he could muster to protect it.” As the siege of Louisburg was one of ...
...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...-way, letting her vanish silently in the night from amongst these sleeping ships. And now he was certain he could not do it. It was impossible! And he... ...a row of dark-faced house-boys unequal in stature and varied in complexion preserved the immobility of a guard of honour. Luiz had taken off his soft ... ...t in his early days he must have been somehow connected with shipping—with ships in docks. Of individuality he had plenty. And it was this which attra... ...hat sort of old thing is that Sagamore? Finest ship out—eh? I dare say all ships are fine to you. Y ou live by them. I tell you what; I would just as ... ... man. Started warehousing; then two or three things at a time: wood- pulp, preserved-fruit trade, and so on. And Captain Harry let him have his share ... ...he province. Something of the sort. All this can be only inferred from the preserved scraps of his consci- entious writing. Next we come upon the pane...
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eople at their doors; telegraphs working; flags hoisted; wharfs appearing; ships; quays crowded with people; distant noises; shouts; men and boys runn... ...th me a most pleasant impression of the town and its inhabitants, and have preserved it to this hour. Nor was it without regret that I came home, with... ..., and the broad sheets in the hands of all, they were Editors, who boarded ships in person (as one gentleman in a worsted comforter informed me), ‘bec... ...and there, again, a cloud of lazy smoke; and in the foreground a forest of ships’ masts, cheery with flap ping sails and waving flags. Crossing from ... ...s, signed by the different chiefs at the period of their ratification, and preserved in the office of the Secre tary to the Commonwealth. These signa... ...n there. When I told him of that chamber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that ceased to be, thou sands of y...
...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...shipwrecks, which unfortunately were consider- able; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd’s, the number of sailing an... ...ose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd’s, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted t... ...cess. Others have been drawn out, not without trouble, from the bottoms of ships, which they had pierced through and through, as a gimlet pierces a ba... ...y see some that are more than four feet long. Some skeletons of poulps are preserved in the museums of Trieste and Montpelier, that measure two yards ... ...re more than four feet long. Some skeletons of poulps are preserved in the museums of Trieste and Montpelier, that measure two yards in length. Beside...
...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ead the placards pasted on the brick announcing the hours at which certain ships would sail for Scotland, Mrs. Ambrose did her best to find informatio... ...d the old man shipped his oars, he remarked once more pointing above, that ships all the world over flew that flag the day 8 The Voyage Out they sail... ... The ship gave a loud melancholy moan. “We’re off!” said Mr. Pepper. Other ships, as sad as she, answered her outside on the river. The chuckling and ... ...ing were melan- choly to both, but on the whole more so to him. Willoughby preserved his heartiness, tempered by re- spect. For the moment nothing was... ...ings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals. If I have preserved mine, as I am thankful to say that in great measure I have, it is... ...If you put your finger into this jar you may be able to extract a piece of preserved ginger. Are you a prodigy?” But the ginger was deep and could not...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ..., the Potomac affords to the city but few of the advantages of a sea-port. Ships can come up, but not ships of large burden. The river seems to have d... ...e them on two decks, and a line-of-battle ship on three. Of line-of-battle ships there will, I suppose, soon be none, as the “Warrior” is only a friga... ...s our own; but nothing can be dirtier, more untidy, or apparently more ill preserved than all the appurtenances of their soldiers. We landed also on t... ...is nothing at Versailles comparable in villany to the huge daubs which are preserved in this hall at the Capitol. It is strange that even self-laudato... ...just falsehood might be prevented. But the seas were not then bridged with ships as they are now bridged, and the laws as written were, perhaps, then ... ...s made to tamper with the evil one, in order that a show of loyalty may be preserved in one or two States which, after all, are not truly loyal!” That...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne, the Penn... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... straits of the Sound, before which every year there pass fifteen thousand ships of all nations. The castle of Kronsberg soon disappeared in the mist,... ...port my conviction. Now, this is my pro- posal. When Columbus asked of his ships’ crews for three days more to discover a new world, those crews, dish... ...sure we are.” “And perhaps at this very moment there is a storm above, and ships over our heads are being rudely tossed by the tem- pest.” “Quite prob... ... to a headland, after he had given his in- structions to the hunter. There preserved meat, biscuit, and tea made us an excellent meal, one of the best... ...some par- ticular soil, like that of the cemetery St. Michel, at Bordeaux, preserved it thus for so many ages? It might be so. But this dried corpse, ... ...You may see it, touch it. It is not a mere skeleton; it is an entire body, preserved for a purely anthropological end and purpose.” I was good enough ...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ng that wondrous Schwarzwald Smithy-Al- tar, what vacant, high-sailing air-ships are these, and whither will they sail with us? “All visible things ar... ... Man’s Activity and Attainment the chief results are aeriform, mystic, and preserved in Tradition only: such are his Forms of Government, with the Aut... ... are not palpable, flow on those main currents of what we call Opinion; as preserved in Institutions, Polities, Churches, above all in Books. Beau- ti... ...credness of Majesty, and all inferior Worships (Worth- 191 Thomas Carlyle ships) are properly a Vesture and Raiment; and the Thirty- nine Articles th... ...ts with care: when did we see any injected Preparation of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may dre... ... any injected Preparation of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may dress himself in a snuff- brown ...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ent that we had no navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand ... ...ling fire or water, as the occasion may require. It turned out that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; ... ...nd were an assurance to this acute politician that his birds were safe. He preserved game rigor- ously, and the deduction was the work of instinct wit... ...e was not, happily, one of the women who betray strong feeling, and humour preserved her from excesses of sentiment. 22 Beauchamp’s Career CHAPTER II... ...ur waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, to the worm in our ships’ timbers, and to lamentable afflictions of the human frame, and of sh... ...tlessness by alternating a state of repose that resembled dormancy, and so preserved him. Rosamund was obliged to give him credit for straightforward ...
...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....
...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...o be morasses), and on a keel of whole bricks it was possible to construct ships to push over the high seas to the remotest port in the room. And a di... ...I seem to remember, came and went; one or two clockwork boats, toy sailing ships that, being keeled, would do nothing but lie on their beam ends on th... ...hands would descend, pluck- ing garrisons from fortresses and sailors from ships, jum- bling them up in their wrong boxes, clumsily so that their rifl... ...still hard at it, and Heaven frightfully upset about the Sunday opening of museums and the falling birth-rate, and as touchy and vindictive as ever. T... ...urged upon me, “as once those vast unmeaning Saurians whose bones encumber museums came and went rejoicing noisily in fruitless lives.” … Fruitless li... ...ong since van- ished with a thousand other papers, but some odd chance has preserved and brought with me to Italy the menu for the evening; its back b...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the P... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...; “I am an old hand at it,” he used to say. Not only so, he knew all about ships, the sea, France, foreign countries, men, business, law, great houses... ... the vermicelli maker was an excellent man. “Ah! my dear lady, such a well-preserved man of his age, as sound as my eyesight—a man who might make a wo... ...st likely; this was Mme. Vauquer’s view. According to her, the man so well preserved at his time of life, as sound as her eyesight, with whom a woman ... ...onger any doubt. Goriot was an elderly libertine, whose eyes had only been preserved by the skill of the physician from the malign influence of the 2... ...him best, and form some idea of the treasures con- tained in galleries and museums. At this stage of his career a student grows eager and excited abou...
...Excerpt: MME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no w...
...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ion of her freedom—of an “old” New York stem; the happy congrui- ties thus preserved for her being matters, however, that I may not now go into, and t... ...d less than what might become of Kate in the process. Kate was to burn her ships in short, so that Marian should profit; and Marian’s desire to profit... ...had much con- tributed: she copied, patient lady, famous pictures in great museums, having begun with a happy natural gift and taking in betimes the s... ...d security; she attached her fur boa with the same honest precautions; she preserved her balance on the ice-slopes with the same practised skill; she ... ...sins, lurid uncles, beautiful vanished aunts, persons all busts and curls, preserved, though so exposed, in the marble of famous French chisels—all th... ...uivocal quan- tity was what had haunted her during their previous days, in museums and churches, and what was again spoiling for her the pure taste of...
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, a... ...en Mrs. W. asks how can a millionaire give a single dollar to colleges and museums while one human being is destitute of bread, she has answered her q... ...oomed faint and far away in the dimness; the sailors in the rigging of the ships that lay in the Basin wrought like phantoms among the shrouds; the go... ...o sit in judgment upon Shakespeare’s seamanship—considering the changes in ships and ship talk that have necessarily taken place, unre corded, unreme... ...ng. What it was about I have long ago forgotten. But it was the tears that preserved the picture for me, no doubt. She was a good child, I can say tha...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state. For one ordered arrangement of citizens rejoicing in an equ... ...us whispering, and we follow them with our eyes. This Utopia has certainly preserved the fundamen- tal freedom, to love. And then a sweet-voiced bell ... ...nd labour sank to its minimum, bricks, iron from inferior ores, shaped and preserved timber, pins, nails, plain fabrics of cotton and linen, paper, sh... ...t forth. Here will be stupen- dous libraries, and a mighty organisation of museums. About these centres will cluster a great swarm of people, and clos...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ifting steadily out to sea. I tell you I damned Dawson’s and Jamrach’s and Museums and all the rest of it just to rights. I bawled to this nigger to c... ...n search of it out of their accustomed zone; first waylaying and following ships, and so coming to our shores in the wake of the Atlan- tic traffic. B... ...and crowded all night long. And in all the seas about the civilized lands, ships with throbbing engines, and ships with bellying sails, crowded with m... ... I have spoken of people praying through the night and people going aboard ships and people fleeing towards mountainous country, that the whole world ... ...all the dan- gers he had been through, and the manner in which he had been preserved that day, his hand sought a little reliquary that hung about his ... ... the river he had been manifestly driven back, this deserted creek or that preserved the name of a casa, and here and there ruinous white walls and a ...
...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...
..........................................................................27 THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID .....................................34 IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY .....................................................................42 ’PYORNIS ISLAND ....................................................................................48 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVI...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...on. He was going to be a clergyman, and it was necessary that he should be preserved from contamination. She liked to see in him an infant Samuel. X T... ...h the nail had a little black edge to it, was point- ing out how the Greek ships were placed and how the Persian. 78 Of Human Bondage XVII PHILIP P A... ... to go to Oxford, and now that there was no chance of his getting scholar- ships even Mr . Carey came to the conclusion that he could not afford it. H... ...ed the Categorical Imperative. You have thrown aside a creed, but you have preserved the ethic which was based upon it. To all intents you are a Chris... ...course she refused. He should have allowed for her pride. He had burnt his ships behind him. It would not be so hard to bear if he thought that she wa... ...appiness. It seemed to him that she gave him all that a wife could, and he preserved his freedom; she was the most charming friend he had ever had, wi...
...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ambassadors by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...owered. It represented, this mute ejaculation, a final impulse to burn his ships. These ships, to the historic muse, may seem of course mere cockles, ... ...m, affected our friend as a dazzling prodigy of type. Strether had seen in museums—in the Luxembourg as well as, more reverently, later on, in the New... ...f the empty town, with plenty of seats in the shade, cool drinks, deserted museums, drives to the Bois in the evening, and our wonderful woman all to ... ...ut more strange: “Shall you give your friend up for the money in it?” Chad preserved his handsome grimace as well as the rest of his attitude. “You’re...
...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as f...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Adam Bede by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans], the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... herself was worth driving ten miles to see, any day; her beauty, her well-preserved faculties, and her old-fash- ioned dignity made her a graceful su... ...andalizing any one; a seaworthy vessel that no one would refuse to insure. Ships, certainly, are liable to casualties, which sometimes make terri- bly... ..., as has got its head knocked down wi’ th’ anchor, an’ th’ firin’, an’ the ships behind? Why, that pictur was made afore Christmas, and yit it’s come ... ... idleness is eager now—eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains, art museums, peri- odical literature, and exciting novels; prone even to scient...
...e to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799....
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e disinterred before the time when diggers had learnt to preserve them for museums, and only reported that they had seen remains. Of human times, a br... ...g-tooth moulding going even down to the ground on each side. This is still preserved in the en- trance to the Boys’ School. These remnants date the or... ...or the ministry and kept a close account of their expenses, which is still preserved. Seven different ministers in the half year after Christmas 1645 ... ...emble’s Parishes death in 1737. Among the materials which Mr. Conduitt had preserved is the record of Newton’s saying, “I do not know what I may appea... ...s whose keepers stood Demanding each his due. I remember, I remember, When ships were beauteous things, The floating castles of the deep Borne upon sn... ... castles of the deep Borne upon snow-white wings; Ere iron-dads and turret ships, Ugly as evil dream, Became the hideous progeny Of iron and of stea...
...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...reathing life of ours by tens of thousands, but who may in vast numbers be preserved if you, assisting and not contravening the ways of Providence, wi... ...n some respects an original collection of fresh water shells, and has also preserved and collected the mosses of fresh water and of the sea: who is wo... ...er of my industrious friend, the newsman, I find there are great fleets of ships bound to all parts of the earth, that they all want a little more sto... ...culum and other matters, but of the frank, free, manly, independent spirit preserved in our public schools, I apprehend there can be no kind of questi... ...ther night, outside one of the “Royal Saloons,” a playbill which showed me ships completely rigged, carrying men, and careering over boundless and tem... ...e the books will not only possess all the attractions of their own friend ships and charms, but also the manifold—I may say womanfold—associations co...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...struggle in knowledge and invention. It is not the Power that has the most ships or the biggest ships that is going to win in a naval conflict. It is ... ...hievement be? What will it leave of things visible? Will it leave a London preserved and beautified, or will it but add abundantly to the lumps of dis... ...usly if those old class reliances on which our sys- tem is based are to be preserved and restored. We need before anything else a restoration of class... ...nemy we shall discover using unsportsmanlike de- vices against our capital ships. Unless he is a lunatic, he will prove to be much stronger in reality... ...p more dangerous and vital than any mere numerical insufficiency of men or ships. She is short of minds. Behind its strength of current armaments to-d... ...nd was invaded by the idea of classification, by memories of specimens and museums; and he initiated that accumulation of desiccated anthropological a...
...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...
...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ...ne 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 mo... ...aving that wondrous Schwarzwald Smithy Altar, what vacant, high sailing air ships are these, and whither will they sail with us? “All visible things ... ...Of Man’s Activity and Attainment the chief results are aeriform, mystic, and preserved in Tradition only: such are his Forms of Government, with the A... ...hat are not palpable, flow on those main currents of what we call Opinion; as preserved in Institutions, Polities, Churches, above all in Books. Beauti... ...thority of Law, the sacredness of Majesty, and all inferior Worships (Worth ships) are properly a Vesture and Raiment; and the Thirty nine Articles t... ...ts with care: when did we see any injected Prepa ration of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may d... ... any injected Prepa ration of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may dress himself in a snuff brown...
...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 fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest ...
...?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 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- ...
...erson who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and in terpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in e... ...ries have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody’s impression of it—the terms of this... ...ness—that is, as I say, its effective interest—enriched by the way. I have in other words constantly inclined to the idea of the particular attaching ... ...on. But it consists simply in having conducted you to rest. You talk about ships, but they’re not the comparison. Your tossings are over— you’re pract... ... only thing was to know what appearance could best be produced and best be preserved. Pro duced and preserved on her part of course; since on his own... ...e with the rest that, directly, for him, it was n’t the note of safety; it preserved this character, at the best, but by being the note of publicity. ... ...sugges tive of pawn tickets, archaic and brown, that would themselves, if preserved, have been prized curiosities. A few commemorative medals of neat... ...edge that an hour or two later he should have “spoken.” The burning of his ships therefore waited too near to let him handle his opportunity with his ... ...ere walking thus, as he felt, nearer and nearer to where he should see his ships burn, and it was meanwhile for him quite as if this red glow would im...
...some person who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and interpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in especial that I have gathered into this Series have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody?s impression of it--the terms of this person?s access to it and es...
...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...rm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it. Boats, yachts, and ships have been carried away by not guarding against it before they were wi... ...ss. There was no warmth. Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity. The fune... ...t ministerial power—or purchasing increase of nobility—or collecting large museums of virtu—or playing the munificent patron of letters, of science, o... ... beings superior, yet akin to hu- manity—then the sentiment of interest is preserved, while the art intervolved is made to assume the air of an interm...
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.
...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ..., if not brewed in the right state of the atmosphere, will sour; timber of ships will rot at sea, or if laid up high and dry, will strain, warp and dr... ...od in every act of the soul. The simplest person who in his integrity wor- ships God, becomes God; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and... ...own from the gills of one agaric countless spores, any one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day. The new ... ...ost-office, of the highway, of commerce and the exchange of prop- erty, of museums and libraries, of institutions of art and science can be answered. ...
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...y small steamers, and at an island in the channel called Shell Island, the ships an- choring some miles out from shore. This made the work slow, and a... ... offices are all located, the President resides, and much room is left for museums, re- ceptions, etc. This is the building generally designated as th... ...de machinery, propelled by water power, had been invented; sails to propel ships upon the waters had been set to catch the passing breeze—but the appl... ...ess they would recognize, first: that the Union as a whole must be forever preserved, and second: that slavery must be abolished. If they were willing... ...they would have to agree to two points: one being that the Union should be preserved, and the other that slavery should be abolished; and if they were...