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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

... first time a Naturopathic Doctor opens his vault to unveil the complete list of home remedies used by professionals Holistic Practitioners... The ... ...itioners... The God of heaven, who created us, has given us the simple things of nature for our healing. It is my prayer that this encyclopedia will... ...eases and disorders. Back in the old days, the pioneers were practical minded people. They knew how to make-do Encyclopedia of Home remedies for be... ... hundreds of reports and studies, and putting my findings to the test on real people in my natural healing clinic... I can say that the majority of ... ...to have fewer apocrine sweat glands, such as older adults and people of Asian descent. Poor hygiene, of course, is another reason unpleasant smells ... ...nd prevent you from developing kidney stones. 4. Drink the half cup juice of French beans everyday for a month once or twice. 5. Bananas are a good... ..., beet greens, black tea, cocoa, cranberries, nuts, parsley, pepper, spinach, Swiss chard, and especially rhubarb. 15. To prevent new uric acid sto...

...After researching 1,300's of natural cures and home remedies, spending months sifting through hundreds of reports and studies, and putting my findings to the test on real people in my natural healing clinic... I can say that the majority of natural...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

...magic happens. Copyright © Tom Glaister 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or tr... ...ical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in Great Britain in 2008 Firecrest Publis... ...s the country, accompanied by the words ‘Do you know this boy?’ Streams of people came forward claiming to be Theo’s father, mother, uncle or best fr... ...ad become a minor celebrity. Letters and f owers poured in every day from people who had read about him or seen him on the latest chat show. Ben- ef ... ...Aliens came to see me last night…’ The audiences were made up of tourists, French schoolchildren on a day out, and people with nothing better to do. ... ... thought I was the forgetful one. To Paris, of course. There’s a group of French schoolchildren over there and their bus leaves in f ve minutes.’ ‘H... ...ce in the world, he could think only of water. The f ying carpet began its descent, and soon Bozo and Theo were coast- ing along just a few metres abo... ...itchens, and the head chef grew more enraged by the day. ‘I’ve lost seven Swiss cheeses, three bags of cakes and a case of wine in the last three day... ...ievous smile. He waited until the door opened again to let in a couple of Swiss backpack- ers and he slipped in behind them. Then he threw one long a...

...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as though the Story itself has gotten out of control. The Hooman...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...oks ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEPARTURE . . . . ... .... . . 13 CHAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . . . . . . . 18 CHAPTER VI — LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—T... ...III — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES—MY WATCHMATE CHAPTER XXIV — SAN DIEGO AGAIN—A DESCENT—HURRIED DEPARTURE—A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 NEW S... ...t the cry of ‘‘sail ho,’’ and who by their dress and features appeared to be Swiss and French emigrants. She hailed us at first in French, but receiv... ...of ‘‘sail ho,’’ and who by their dress and features appeared to be Swiss and French emigrants. She hailed us at first in French, but receiving no ans... ...e no one cares for; so that when ‘‘the mate’’ thinks fit to entertain ‘‘the people’’ with a coarse joke or a little practical wit, every one feels b... ...t among landsmen about a sailor’s life. Nothing is more common than to hear people say—‘‘Are not sailors very idle at sea?—what can they find to do?’... ... and got the word from him; and then, by signs, and the help of my Latin and French, contrived to get along. This was a good exercise for me, and no ... ... the examples. That done, and there being no signs of the Pilgrim, I made a descent upon old Schmidt, and borrowed and read all the books there were ...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance ...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CA...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...f the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand, by universal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all histo... ...thor shows to be anything but grand—and of the Regency. The opinion of the French critic, Sainte-Beuve, is fairly typi- cal. “With the Memoirs of De R... ...int- 4 Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ... own room, found them smoking with pipes, which they had sent for from the Swiss Guards! Knowing what would happen if the smell were discovered, he ma... ...rs of age, still showed it, although tall, stout, and coarse featured as a Swiss guard in woman’s clothes. She was, moreover, bold, audacious, talk- i...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ...pathy is expressed with truth and power; especially is the weakness of the Swiss philosopher’s character summed up in the fol- lowing admirable lines:... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...under- taking was executed with ardor, but did not immediately succeed—our descent was not skilfully planned—the water did not run, the earth falling ... ...imself from difficulties by saying he was not suf- ficiently versed in the French language. The next day, lest my indiscreet objections should injure ... ...eral books over fair, and trans- late commercial letters from Italian into French. All at once he thought fit to accept the before rejected proposal, ... ...o thank me for some books I had presented to the library of that city; the Swiss are great speakers; these gentlemen, ac- cordingly, made me a long ha...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. 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... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...mplicity of a decimal coinage which is revolting to the human mind; thus the French, in small affairs, reckon strictly by halfpence; and you have to s... ...my little restaurant at Monterey, we have sat down to table day after day, a French- man, two Portuguese, an Italian, a Mexican, and a Scotchman: we h... ...by the highroad, he had built himself a little cabin after the manner of the Swiss Family Robinson; thither he mounted at night, by the romantic aid o... ...h; an odd circumstance, if you reflect that both must be largely Norsemen by descent. I remember seeing one of the strongest instances of this di- vis... ...whom the whole affair was Greek and Hebrew) profanely playing tigg. The same descent, the same country, the same narrow sect of the same religion, and...

... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...kable lift about it that argued education, not only of himself, but of his people before him. The impression conveyed by his mouth and chin was that o... ... be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire; where the tumu... ...they laughed uproariously among themselves, joshing one of their number, a Frenchman, whom they called “Skeezicks.” Their hilarity reverberated in a h... ...like going to bed than dancing. The two girl cousins, in dresses of dotted Swiss over blue sa- teen, were doing their utmost to pacify her. She could ... ...as a noise of imprecations mingled with shouts of derision. Skeezicks, the Frenchman, had turned upon the joshers. “Ah, no,” he was heard to exclaim, ... ...ere.” They set off. It was a terrible ride. T wice during the scram- bling descent from the hills, Presley’s pony fell beneath him. Annixter, on his b...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William ... ...uch the more plen- tiful and nearer at hand. Secondly, to drink, after the French fashion, but at two meals, and then very moderately, is to be too sp... ...how to die? Josephus, when engaged in so near and apparent danger, a whole people being violently bent against him, that there was no visible means of... ...city of Epirus being reduced by the Romans to the last extremity, gave the people counsel uni- versally to kill themselves; but, these preferring to g... ...ad my fill without sin.” In truth, these cruelties are very unwor- thy the French good nature, and also, God be thanked, our air is very well purged o... ...hese divinations wherein we are so often deceived. If the ordinary rule of descent were to be violated, and the destinies corrected in the choice they... ...he alarm; but that even then we could not stick to it. But the Germans and Swiss, more gross and heavy, had not the sense to look about them, even whe... ...lengthen his day’s march, especially if it was foul and rainy weather. The Swiss, in the beginning of his wars in Gaul, having sent to him to demand a...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second translated by Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER II...

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The Clever Woman of the Family

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...d that they were arrived, and they were at the door of a sort of overgrown Swiss cot- tage, where Mrs. Curtis and Grace stood ready to receive them. T... ...estioning and perplexed. “I was thinking,” said Grace, “that I believe the people at the Cliff Cottages are going away, and that Miss Williams might b... ...iving in state here,” said Rachel; “I never could enter into the cult some people, mamma especially, pay to their drawing-room.” The Major used to be ... ...t one of these Grace rang, and obtained admittance to a parlour with crazy French windows opening on a little strip of garden. In a large wheeled chai... ... the Hospital for Cretins in Switzerland.” “Scotch pedants, Dutch thieves, Swiss goitres—I will bear your tastes in mind,” said Mr. Keith, rising to t... ...nt polish of manner that the old Scottish nobility have inherited from the French of the old regime—a man- ner that, though Colin possessed all its es... ...advantage of a previ- ous view, stood up on the box, and before making his descent, shouted out, “Oh, Aunt Rachel, your F . U. thing is as bad as the ...

...in itself, and shows how well nature can be imitated; but it is meant for a mere girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.?...

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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres

By: Edgar Alfred Bowring

...red Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring 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... ......................................................................... 107 Swiss Song. .................................................................. .............................................. 333 THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL. ........................................................... ..................................................................... 346 THE SWISS ALPS. .................................................................. ...ethe To the Kind Reader. No one talks more than a Poet; Fain he’d have the people know it. Praise or blame he ever loves; None in prose confess an err... ...nts* (* The name of a game, known in English as “Jack’s alight.”) We young people in the shade Sat one sultry day; Cupid came, and “Dies the Fox” With... ...ne that soon its beautiful margin Into a wall would be turn’d, to keep the French from our country, And its wide-spreading bed a ditch to hinder and c... ...ere warmly excited. Presently after began the war, and the train of arm’ d Frenchmen Nearer approach’ d; at first they appear’ d to bring with them fr...

Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

...n. ..................................................................................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Dedication. ......................................................

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ..., Condorcet, Mirabeau, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce ... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ...rd’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not... ..., or finer stays, May be the baits for gentlemen or lords With regular descent, in these our days, The last year to the new transfers its hoar... ...re he is warden;— But though the flower is different, with the French Or Swiss Rousseau, cry ‘Voila la Pervenche!’ Eureka! I have found it! What...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...tte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...ery touching one that he wrote to me on my father’s death. Those Redclyffe people certainly have great force of character.’ ‘And was it then he settle... ...s fly in and out. Well, what does Master Guy do, but go down this headlong descent after the nest. How he escaped alive no one could guess; and his gr... ...The sisters were again charmed and surprised, and Guy looked gratified, as people do at the discovery of a faculty which they are particularly glad to... ...e you to make much of this talent in public; it is too much a badge of his descent.’ ‘Mamma did not think so,’ said Amy. ‘She thought it a pity he sho... ...uy into showing you those verses?’ ‘Oh yes,’ said Charlotte, with what the French call “un air capable”.’ ‘Well, what were they?’ ‘That I mustn’t tell... ...y one belonging to you, Laura.’ Laura’s heart had that sensation which the French call “se serrer”, as she heard him allude to the long separation to ... ... William of Deloraine, waiting to hold Whiteface; there was Arnaud, an old Swiss, first courier and then butler to old Sir Guy; there was Mrs. Drew, t...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...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... ...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... ...th particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects,... ...d – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese – you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of a... ...us nor quick about the life of others. In *1881. 6 Robert Louis Stevenson French colonies, and still more in the Dutch, I have read that there is an ... ...ts who rallied round Macbeth and the old (and highly preferable) system of descent by females, fleers from before the legions of Agricola, marchers in... ...o have not groaned under the plethora of goods that fell to the lot of the Swiss Family Robinson, that dreary family. They found article after article... ...iginal: “a damsel, who, close behind a fine spring about half-way down the descent, and which had once supplied the castle with water, was engaged in ...

... by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent 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 di...

...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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